Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com> wrote in
news:qjcug4019gr@drn.newsguy.com:
> more at
> http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-are-dropping-like-flies-ex-fighter-
> pilots-push-for-earlier-cancer-screenings/ar-AAFYi15?li=BBnb7Kz
>
> the military to begin cancer screenings for aviators as young as 30
> because of an increase in deaths from the disease that they suspect
> may be tied to radiation emitted in the cockpit.
>
> retired Air Force Col. Eric Nelson, a former F-15E Strike Eagle
> weapons officer. He cited prostate and esophageal cancers, lymphoma,
> and glioblastomas that have struck fellow pilots he knew, commanded or
> flew with.
>
> months after he retired from the Air Force. In his career he has more
> than 2,600 flying hours, including commanding the 455th Air
> Expeditionary Group in Bagram, Afghanistan, and as commander of six
> squadrons of F-15E fighter jets at the 4th Operations Group at Seymour
> Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.
>
> Last month McClatchy reported on a new Air Force study that reviewed
> the risk for prostate cancers among its fighter pilots and new
> Veterans Health Administration data showing that the rate of reported
> cases of prostate cancers per year among veterans using the VA health
> care system across all services has risen almost 16% since fiscal year
> 2000.
>
> The Air Force study also looked at cockpit exposure, finding that
>
> Retired Navy Cmdr. Mike Crosby served as a radar intercept officer in
> F-14 fighter jets from 1984 to 1997, accumulating over 2,000 flight
> hours. He started Veterans Prostate Cancer Awareness Inc. in 2016
> after his own prostate cancer diagnosis at age 55.
>
> said. Crosby and other pilots who contacted McClatchy said they
> suspect the cancers in their community may be linked to prolonged
> exposure in the cockpit to radiation from the radar systems on their
> advanced jets, or other sources such as from cockpit oxygen generation
> systems.
>
> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that
> exposure to some types of radiation can cause cancer, however to date
> there has been no link established between the specific radiation
> emitted from radars on these advanced jets and the illnesses pilots
> are now seeing.
>
> Navy and Air Force pilots told McClatchy about their battles with
> cancer, their frustrations about what they saw as the limitations of
> the Air Force study, and about former pilots who have died from
> cancer.
>
> need to see a urologist once a year. Not your primary care physician,
> not your flight doc. Pay the money and stick around for your
>
> currently covers prostate cancer screenings at age 50 for service
> members with no family history of the disease, and as young as age 40
> if there is a family history of the disease in two or more family
> members. The pilots who spoke with McClatchy said they did not have a
> family history of prostate cancer when they were diagnosed.
>
> Retired Navy Cmdr. Thomas Hill was a career F-4 and F-14 pilot and
> squadron commanding officer with more than 3,600 flight hours and more
> than 960 aircraft carrier landings. Hill was 52 when he was diagnosed
> with a brain tumor. In December 2011, at age 60, he learned he also
> had esophageal cancer.
>
> Hill has spent the last two years tracking premature deaths or cancers
> more than a dozen who have either been diagnosed or have died from the
> disease.
>
>
>
> more at
> http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/we-are-dropping-like-flies-ex-fighter-
> pilots-push-for-earlier-cancer-screenings/ar-AAFYi15?li=BBnb7Kz
>
>
>
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>
"They enlisted, didn't they?"
Dick Cheney, brushing off military
deaths in the wars that he pushed
Bush into starting, 2008.
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