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Job with Highest Risk of Radiation Cancer Revealed Out of over 500 Occupations

You might assume nuclear workers or X-ray technicians face the greatest occupational radiation exposure, but new research points somewhere much less obvious: the sky. An analysis of more than 500 occupations found that flight attendants had the highest proportion of radiation-related cancer deaths, followed by pilots. Researchers say the likely culprit is cosmic radiation, which becomes more intense at cruising altitude because there is less atm…

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Various forms of high-energy ionizing radiation exist in the skies where airplanes fly. Ionizing radiation acts on the nuclear material within cells, causing mutations and potentially inducing cancer. In particular, cancers occurring in the breast, central nervous system, bone marrow, blood, thyroid, prostate, and skin are closely linked to radiation exposure and are therefore classified as radiation-related cancers. Recently, a research team fr…

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CC OO claims early retirement for this group after the publication of a study that puts it in the first place of cancer mortality associated with this phenomenon

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CCOO demands an end to the "discrimination" that excludes these professionals, mostly women, from early retirement for air workers in SpainNew attempt to get hostesses to access early retirement in the air sector: "It's a discrimination" Harvard research has revealed that flight crews, mostly women, are the most at risk of death from radiation-related cancers, followed by pilots. The study has had data from nearly 13 million people who died in t…

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Eldiario.es broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday, August 25, 2026.
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