Hot off the press today - Cosmic radiation damage research in pilots
Reuters Health has reported on a new piece of research written up in Occupational and Environmental Medicine that looked at genetic abnormalities known as chromosome translocations (these increase your risk of cancer) which are caused by exposure to cosmic radiation. They have found that for every 10 years of flying experience you increase your chromosome translocations by 81% - even when the pilots’ ages were factored in. They recommend that further research is done into which cancers are likely to be triggered by these abnormalities.
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009
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