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Don't you have to worry about radiation at some point? I mean flying 300 days out of the year has to add up.
by post_break 11y ago
Don't you have to worry about radiation at some point? I mean flying 300 days out of the year has to add up.
- ceejayoz 11y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted, it's a real issue. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/24/news/24iht-radiate_ed3__0.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/24/news/24iht-radiate_ed3__0.... > A 1996 paper published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found a higher incidence of myeloid leukemia, astrocytoma, prostate cancer and malignant melanoma among 2,740 Air Canada pilots than in the general population. > One study of female flight attendants in Finland and Denmark found an increased rate of breast cancer.
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- acqq 11y agoAlso, via XKCD: http://xkcd.com/radiation/ http://xkcd.com/radiation/ Three LA to NY flights are more than the approximate dose received at Fukushima Town Hall over two weeks following the accident. But you have to make 175 flights to get as much as you get with just one chest CT scan.
- octocoupler 11y agoAccording to that graph a chest x-ray (20 µSv) has half the effect of a LA-NY flight (40 µSv)
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- cbr 11y agoChest X-ray << Chest CT scan (350x) Which makes sense, since a CT scan is basically enough X-rays that you can make a 3D picture.
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- aaron695 11y agoShift work also gives you cancer at higher rates. I'd imagine time zones changes also. It doesn't mention if this is accounted for.
- ethbro 11y agohttp://www.radshield.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=8 http://www.radshield.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product... PS: Have fun with TSA.
- raldi 11y agoSome people spend their entire careers working as pilots or flight attendants.
- personjerry 11y agoRight, and as the article linked to above points out, they are at increased risk of various cancers.