{"id":138924,"date":"2023-03-25T08:21:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T12:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=138924"},"modified":"2023-03-23T00:41:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T04:41:48","slug":"higher-cancer-rates-among-military-pilots-and-ground-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=138924","title":{"rendered":"Higher cancer rates among Military pilots and ground crews"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Pentagon study revealed higher cancer rates among military pilots and ground crews when compared to the general population. The study was conducted on those who performed these duties from 1992 through 2017. Reported cancers include melanoma, thyroid cancer, prostate cancer, and breast cancer. However, lower rates of lung cancer, bladder cancer, and colon cancers were found among this group when compared to the general population.<\/p>\n

From military.com:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Isolating potential causes is difficult, and the Pentagon was careful to note that this study “does not imply that military service in air crew or ground crew occupations causes cancer, because there are multiple potential confounding factors that could not be controlled for in this analysis,” such as family histories, smoking or alcohol use.<\/p>\n

But aviation crews have long asked for the Pentagon to look closely at some of the environmental factors they are exposed to, such as jet fuels and solvents used to clean and maintain jet parts, sensors and their power sources in aircraft nose cones, and the massive radar systems on the decks of the ships they land on.<\/p>\n

When Navy Capt. Jim Seaman would come home from a deployment aboard an aircraft carrier, his gear would reek of jet fuel, his widow Betty Seaman said. The A-6 Intruder pilot died in 2018 at age 61 of lung cancer. Betty Seaman still has his gear stored and it still smells of fuel, “which I love,” she said.<\/p>\n

She and others wonder if there’s a link. She said crews would talk about how even the ship’s water systems would smell of fuel.<\/p>\n

She said she and others have mixed feelings about finally seeing in data what they have suspected for years about the aviation cancers. But “it has the potential to do a lot of good as far as early communication, early detection,” she said.<\/p>\n

The study found that when crew members were diagnosed with cancer, they were more likely to survive than members of the general population, which the study suggested was because they were diagnosed earlier due to regular required medical checkups and were more likely to be in better health because of their military fitness requirements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military.com<\/a> has the article here and the Department of Defense study could be accessed at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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