Risk of breast cancer is also increased among retired US female airline cabin attendants (original) (raw)
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- Risk of breast cancer is also increased among retired US female airline cabin attendants
- Daniel Wartenberg, Associate professor,
- Cecile Pryor Stapleton, Doctoral student
- Environmental Health Division, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Piscataway, NJ 08855-1179, USA
EDITOR—An excess incidence of breast cancer has been reported among Finnish1 and Danish2 airline cabin attendants (standardised incidence ratio 1.9 (95% confidence interval 1.2 to 2.2) and 1.6 (0.9 to 2.7) respectively). In a retrospective cohort survey of retired flight attendants from one US airline we also found an excess incidence of breast cancer (standardised incidence ratio=2.0 (1.0 to 4.3)) (unpublished data).
Neither of the previous reports identified a cause for this excess incidence. One suggested that, on the basis of estimated exposures, radiation …
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