Cancer incidence in professional flight crew and air traffic control officers: Disentangling the effect of occupational versus lifestyle exposures

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 374-384

  Dos Santos Silva, Isabel ^a   De Stavola, Bianca ^a   Pizzi, Costanza ^a   Evans, Anthony D ^b   Evans, Sally A ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Organisation de l'aviation civile internationale   (Canada)

^c UK Civil Aviation Authority   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

air traffic control officers; cancer; flight crew; malignant melanoma; radiation; skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL OFFICER; AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMIC RADIATION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MELANOMA; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SMOKING; STANDARDIZED INCIDENCE RATIO; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBATHING;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MELANOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TRAVEL;

EID: 84869504462     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27612     Document Type: Article

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