Incidence of cancer among Nordic airline pilots over five decades: occupational cohort study
| Autor: | Harald Eliasch, Maryanne Gundestrup, Anette Linnersjö, Vilhjalmur Rafnsson, Ulf Tveten, Tor Haldorsen, Niklas Hammar, Pentti Kyyrönen, Anssi Auvinen, Jon Hrafnkelsson, Eero Pukkala, Rafael Aspholm, Hans H. Storm |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Neoplasms Radiation-Induced Aircraft Iceland Scandinavian and Nordic Countries Prostate cancer symbols.namesake Occupational Exposure Medicine Humans Poisson regression Risk factor Finland General Environmental Science Aged business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) General Engineering Cancer Retrospective cohort study General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Surgery Occupational Diseases Relative risk Papers symbols General Earth and Planetary Sciences Skin cancer business Epidemiologic Methods Cosmic Radiation Demography |
| Zdroj: | Tampere University Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1756-1833 |
| Popis: | Objective: To assess the incidence of cancer among male airline pilots in the Nordic countries, with special reference to risk related to cosmic radiation. Design: Retrospective cohort study, with follow up of cancer incidence through the national cancer registries. Setting: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Participants: 10 032 male airline pilots, with an average follow up of 17 years. Main outcome measures: Standardised incidence ratios, with expected numbers based on national cancer incidence rates; dose-response analysis using Poisson regression. Results: 466 cases of cancer were diagnosed compared with 456 expected. The only significantly increased standardised incidence ratios were for skin cancer: melanoma 2.3 (95% confidence interval 1.7 to 3.0), non-melanoma 2.1 (1.7 to 2.8), basal cell carcinoma 2.5 (1.9 to 3.2). The relative risk of skin cancers increased with the estimated radiation dose. The relative risk of prostate cancer increased with increasing number of flight hours in long distance aircraft. Conclusions: This study does not indicate a marked increase in cancer risk attributable to cosmic radiation, although some influence of cosmic radiation on skin cancer cannot be entirely excluded. The suggestion of an association between number of long distance flights (possibly related to circadian hormonal disturbances) and prostate cancer needs to be confirmed. |
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