Pilots and Flight Attendants Face a Real Cancer Risk. Frequent Flyers Shouldn’t Panic
There is a particular unease that comes from seeing that an ordinary part of life has been linked to cancer. If you fly a few times a year, the results of a new study by two of us may elicit exactly that feeling; pilots and flight attendants die of radiation-related cancers at higher rates than workers in over 500 occupations that we studied.
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There is a particular unease that comes from seeing that an ordinary part of life has been linked to cancer. If you fly a few times a year, the results of a new study by two of us may elicit exactly that feeling; pilots and flight attendants die of radiation-related cancers at higher rates than workers in over 500 occupations that we studied. So should you rethink your travel plans? We aren’t, and we don’t think you should, either.
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- There is a particular unease that comes from seeing that an ordinary part of life has been linked to cancer. If you fly a few times a year, the results of a new study by two of us may elicit exactly that feeling; pilots and flight attendants die of radiation-related cancers at higher rates than workers in over 500 occupations that we studied.
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