Brain Cancer risk?
11-06-2016, 03:30 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
I suspect that the skin cancer rate among pilots is due more to time off and a tendency towards active outdoor lifestyles, relative to our 9-to-5 peers.
Glass cockpit windows block essentially all UVB, which is the spectrum known to cause skin cancer.
But plastic windows used in light airplanes don't block anything other than bugs, so lather on the sunblock for GA ops.
Glass cockpit windows block essentially all UVB, which is the spectrum known to cause skin cancer.
But plastic windows used in light airplanes don't block anything other than bugs, so lather on the sunblock for GA ops.
11-07-2016, 05:27 AM
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Originally Posted by NMuir
Can you cite your source on that? I would like to read up on it.
This talks about UVA vs. UVB. It also reflects the possibility that UVA may also contribute to skin cancer risk, which is suspected but yet proven to my satisfaction. UV: absorption, distribution, metabolism
This talks about glass absorption: Why can you not get sunburned behind a glass?
11-07-2016, 05:34 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
I have a health physics background, it's just one of those things I know but you can easily google it...
This talks about UVA vs. UVB. It also reflects the possibility that UVA may also contribute to skin cancer risk, which is suspected but yet proven to my satisfaction. UV: absorption, distribution, metabolism
This talks about glass absorption: Why can you not get sunburned behind a glass?
This talks about UVA vs. UVB. It also reflects the possibility that UVA may also contribute to skin cancer risk, which is suspected but yet proven to my satisfaction. UV: absorption, distribution, metabolism
This talks about glass absorption: Why can you not get sunburned behind a glass?
04-16-2017, 05:27 PM
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Interested in further research!
My husband was a corporate pilot and flew for over 30 years in the industry. He flew anything from single prop, twin props, learjets, falcon jets, to piagio. He passed away after an eighteen month battle with Glioblastoma. We always wondered if it was from all the radio electronics in the cockpits throughout the years. One of my husbands great friends, whom he flew with many times, and was a jet pilot as well, passed away two days ago after a 4 year battle with Glioblastoma. I truly pray that it's not because of their love of their career paths as pilots that the both passed with the same cancer.
I would be so interested in knowing what happened to them, and everyone that was taken by this terrible disease.
Thank you
I would be so interested in knowing what happened to them, and everyone that was taken by this terrible disease.
Thank you
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10-27-2019, 03:24 PM
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More Gioblastoma and brain maladies...
We know three pilots who have died of brain cancer/Gioblastoma. Southwest/Navy F14 - died of Gioblastoma; American Air/ AirForce T38, A10 - died of brain cancer, Delta, AirForce T38, brain tumor. All close friends of ours. All pilots were in their 50's. My husband also has unexplained brain symptoms similar to early onset ALZ, but with no DNA markers. The doctors have said that studies show that high altitude flying above 30,000 feet (while using oxygen masks)has proven to cause brain lesions in the white mass in the brain. My husband is 58. United 777/Air Force, T38. The VA is not making this public, but there must be others. So many lives cut short. Are there others out there?
10-27-2019, 03:41 PM
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