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Alternative Title:
Ann Occup Hyg
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/annhyg/met039
Personal Author:
Grajewski, Barbara ; Pinkerton, Lynne E.
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Description:
Few studies of cancer mortality and incidence among flight crew have included a detailed assessment of both occupational exposures and lifestyle factors that may influence the risk of cancer. In this issue, Kojo et al. (Risk factors for skin cancer among Finnish airline cabin crew. Ann Occup. Hyg 2013; 57: 695-704) evaluated the relative contributions of ultraviolet and cosmic radiation to the incidence of skin cancer in Finnish flight attendants. This is a useful contribution, yet the reason flight crew members have an increased risk of skin cancer compared with the general population remains unclear. Good policy decisions for flight crew will depend on continued and emerging effective collaborations to increase study power and improve exposure assessment in future flight crew health studies. Improving the assessment of occupational exposures and non-occupational factors will cost additional time and effort, which are well spent if the role of exposures can be clarified in larger studies.
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Article Cosmic Radiation Exposure Assessment Female Flight Crew Humans Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Skin Cancer Skin Neoplasms Ultraviolet Radiation Cosmic Radiation
Source:
Ann Occup Hyg. 57(6):692-694
Pubmed ID:
23818455
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC4509733
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
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CDC Public Access
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/32316/cdc_32316_DS1.pdf
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