Posted on 03/20/2023 12:20:21 PM PDT by algore
A new study from the Department of Defense revealed that military pilots and ground crews experienced higher rates of certain cancers compared to the general population.
The big picture: The study examined cancer rates among nearly 900,000 air and ground crew from 1992 to 2017.
Overall — compared to the general population after adjusting for age, sex and race — aircrews saw a 24% higher rate of cancer of all types while ground crews saw a 3% higher rate of cancer of all types. However, both air and ground crews saw "lower or similar" cancer mortality rates for all cancer types compared to the general population.
Zoom in: The study found that aircrews had 87% higher rates of melanoma and 39% higher rates of thyroid cancer. Men saw 16% higher rates of prostate cancer.
For ground crews, the study observed 19% higher rates of brain and nervous system cancers, 15% higher rates of thyroid cancer, and 9% higher rates of kidney or renal cancers, as well as 9% higher rates of melanoma. But both air and ground crews saw lower rates of some cancers, with both seeing lower rates of lung cancer.
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My wife’s cousin just died a few months ago from cancer.
He was retired USAF aircraft technician specializing in aircraft braking systems, and was hired as a civilian doing the same work after he retired................
cancer causing benzene from petrol distillate
Good ole vaccine, has dramatically increase cancer rate.
Geeze, maybe daily exposure to jet fuel fumes, hydraulic oil fumes and tons of exhaust fumes from AC and trucks ... who wooda thought
this study is from before covid but maybe covid and shots will make it worse
That. Benzene exposure is one of the top causes of (preventible) cancers.
In addition there is UV exposure at high altitudes, much more than commercial pilots.
There are greater cosmic rays and ionized solar radiation at high altitudes. There is not much to be done about that.
I drank the water at Camp Lejeune and I have 5398.5 hours as a C-130 loadmaster. I wonder what the next bombshell will be.
Radiation from proximity to radars and UHF radios? (wild ass guess).
Good news! The first mRNA human vaccine trials were in 2009.
You forgot deicing fluid. That stuff stank up the inside as it got sucked into all the air intakes. And flying through the smoke from the burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan.
All of those. It’s really not a stretch to believe theses disparities between this cohort and the general population. I wonder if civilian ground crews see similar problems.
Clear back in the 60’s we started to realize the air crews who spent a day at a time at high altitude in a B52 were getting a good dose of radiation. I advocated for making them wear the same kind of dosimeters that nuke sub crews use. Every one of the guys I know from those old crews has some kind of cancer. I think Prostate is the most common. But nobody in the airfarce is gonna listen to a nuke so it seems we still have cancers all over the place. And this is all well before the clotshots?
So if you’re gonna fly high for long at least get yurself a lead lined jockstrap. And a lead brain bucket isn’t a bad idea either.
It would be interesting to see the cancer rates for Guard and Reserve compared to Active Duty.
That hasn’t changed in +100 years. you have to look at what has changed for an increse. Which we know the spike protein from the injection attacks our natural immunity against cancer. Which is the P53 gene.
From the article: “The study examined cancer rates among nearly 900,000 air and ground crew from 1992 to 2017.”
To avoid being totally screwed stay away from Jackson, Mississippi and Palestine Ohio. Avoid trains and weather balloons and stay off runways with cross taxi ways. That should do it.
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