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Article: Growing evidence for increased risk of breast, skin cancers among cabin crew.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- November 10, 2003
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2003 NOV 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Airplane cabin crew seem to be at increased risk of breast and skin cancers, suggests a study in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Researchers in Iceland looked at the chances of developing the potentially fatal skin cancer, malignant melanoma, to see if there were any factors likely to increase the acknowledged risk among air crew.
A survey of over 1,000 pilots and flight attendants, and almost 2,000 people randomly selected from the general population, looked at the differences between the two groups in terms of physical make-up, such as skin type, or in behavior, such as tanning-bed use and ...