ReviewFrontiers in public health2022
Cancer risks from cosmic radiation exposure in flight: A review.
Review in Frontiers in public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Health Implications of Shift Work in Airline Pilots and Cabin Crew: A Narrative Review and Pilot Study Findings.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Suppressed DNA repair capacity in flight attendants after air travel.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Senolytic agent ABT-263 mitigates low- and high-LET radiation-induced gastrointestinal cancer development inAging · 2025Article
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- Recent trends in cosmic radiation exposure onboard aircraft: effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Japanese in-flight doses.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Changes in cosmic radiation doses of aircraft crew over the COVID-19 pandemic (2019-2022).Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Annual space weather fluctuations and telomere length dynamics in a longitudinal cohort of older men: the Normative Aging Study.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2024Article
- Cancer risk among air transportation industry workers in Korea: a national health registry-based study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- A Historical Survey of Key Epidemiological Studies of Ionizing Radiation Exposure.Radiation research · 2024Review
- Cosmic Ionizing Radiation: A DNA Damaging Agent That May Underly Excess Cancer in Flight Crews.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
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- SYNBIOMicroorganisms · 2023Article
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Abstract
Aircrew (consisting of flight attendants, pilots, or flight engineers/navigators) are exposed to cosmic ionizing radiation (CIR) at flight altitude, which originates from solar activity and galactic sources. These exposures accumulate over time and are considerably higher for aircrew compared to the general population, and even higher compared to U.S. radiation workers. Many epidemiological studies on aircrew have observed higher rates of specific cancers compared to the general population. Despite high levels of CIR exposure and elevated rates of cancer in aircrew, a causal link between CIR and cancer has yet to be established. Many challenges still exist in effectively studying this relationship, not the least of which is evaluating CIR exposure separately from the constellation of factors that occur as part of the flight environment. This review concentrates on cancer incidence and mortality observed among aircrew in epidemiologic studies in relation to CIR exposure and limitation trends observed across the literature. The aim of this review is to provide an updated comprehensive summary of the literature that will support future research by identifying epidemiological challenges and highlighting existing increased cancer concerns in an occupation where CIR exposure is anticipated to increase in the future.
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