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Old 7th Feb 2007, 13:04
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gingernut
 
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Old Smokey, you may want to have a look at "Medline."

Using the search terms "Pilot" AND "cancer" revealled this paper... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

which could be a starting point for your enquiries.

I think the matter of pilots and health was discussed on this very forum some years ago. At the time, I think the advice was that an insurance actuary would probably be more of a help to you than a doctor, but the general feeling was that pilots on the whole lived longer and better than Joe Average, due to their socio-economic advantage (I got in trouble for that one), but the incidence (?prevalence) rate was higher for skin cancers.

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