Flight attendants get more uterine, thyroid and other cancers, study finds

Flight attendant's, as a group, 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, 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. The research does not answer why flight attendants report higher cancer numbers, but the authors have some ideas, based on earlier research. Flight attendants are often exposed to possible or probable carcinogens more frequently than the general population. They are also exposed to higher levels of cosmic ionising radiation. <br/>