Flight attendants get more uterine, thyroid and other cancers, study finds
A flight attendant's life may look glamorous, but the job comes with health hazards that go beyond managing surly passengers. As a group, they get certain cancers more than the general population, according to a new study.
Scientists have long found that flight attendants get more breast cancer and melanoma. The new study, published Monday in the journal Environmental Health [open, DOI: 10.1186/s12940-018-0396-8], saw the same trend and detected a higher prevalence of every other cancer the researchers examined: Non-melanoma skin cancer, uterine, gastrointestinal, cervical and thyroid cancers were all seen at a higher rate in flight attendants.
"Something that somewhat surprised us, to some extent, was that we also saw a higher instance of breast cancer in women with three or more children," said study co-author Irina Mordukhovich, a research associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Typically, the more children a woman has, the lower her risk of breast cancer. A previous study showed a result similar to the new breast cancer finding [open, DOI: 10.1093/jtm/taw055] [DX], she said, but Mordukhovich didn't expect those findings would be replicated. "Women with three or more children are already probably not getting enough sleep," Mordukhovich said. "Combine that with this disruption from the job, especially for those who fly internationally, this may be an indication that the circadian rhythm disruption is having an impact."
(Score: 1, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday June 29 2018, @01:31AM (3 children)
Well, i don't know who you are, and exactly why this is a problem, but I do know that flight-attendants are bug-chasers. They're the personality types to chase nasty sex and all the things that come with that from airport to airport, continent to continent. When you choose that as a lifestyle, then you live it, port to port, continent to continent.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday June 29 2018, @01:35AM (2 children)
Let me expand upon that: They're the same people who live the lives of sailors. Without the infrastructure that sailors have to cure their sexually-transmitted ailments.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday June 29 2018, @01:43AM (1 child)
Maybe the heightened radiation environment can cleanse the STDs.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 29 2018, @09:50PM
no, i think the stds will mutate and become quite aggressive! have you seen some of the people at airports? they barely look human. i always thought they are what happens to stewardesses after they stopped being pretty due to the accelerated aging from the radiation and substance abuse (sometimes they are out of vodka because it's not for sale!)