Parenting Pointers 1101 - Health risks for flight attendants

Health risks for flight attendants Sure, the job looks glamorous, but flight attendants have serious health hazards. They get cancers more than the general population, a lot more. Flight attendants get more breast cancer and melanoma than other professions. They also get non-melanoma skin cancers, uterine, gastrointestinal, cervical and thyroid cancers. Even having multiple children, doesn’t protect a flight attendant from getting breast cancer. Being a mother is known to be a protective factor against the disease. What’s causing this? Is a disruption in the daily sleep cycle to blame? It’s associated with an increased risk for cancer. Is it exposure to carcinogenic chemicals or celestial radiation which is also a cancer risk? What about frequent fliers? They haven’t been studied, so no one knows. More research is needed to develop policies to protect aircraft crews.