It's not cosmic rays. It's fuel and oils. Benzene is the OG carcinogen.
Military machines are like working with farm equipment, heavy dangerous and with ok-ish ppe which is usually not enough.
Just look at the burn pits fiasco.
Military machines are like working with farm equipment, heavy dangerous and with ok-ish ppe which is usually not enough.
Just look at the burn pits fiasco.
However, the gap between ground crew rates and air crew rates, plus known similar effects in civilian airliner crew (https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/aircrew/cancer.html) indicates that it's likely that a significant component of increased risk for pilots and aircrew may be related to high altitude.
This doesn't rule out something like... increased exposure to flame-retardants (or something) (fabrics, other materials, or maybe off-gasing into air supply) that may be carcinogenic.
I don't think Benzene is the main risk factor for those type of cancers . Benzene causes blood cancers, lymphomas.
My point was more that there's more common risk factors. And for the flight crew, maybe they should ease off on volleyball :P
I do wonder if there’s a link between that agent Orange and the stupid adrenal tumor I had.