A review of the medical records of 20,000 Australian pilots shows that they apparently are at no higher risk of invasive melanoma than members of the general population, according to a new report by a team of cancer researchers.
The report, published in the June issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, said the findings differed significantly from the results of older research conducted in the Northern Hemisphere, which showed that pilots from Europe and North America faced an elevated risk of melanoma.
The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) quoted the lead author of the study, Catherine Olsen of the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, as saying the research found that Australian pilots experienced no more melanomas on the head, neck or arms than members of the general population. An increase in …
