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Cancer rates for pilots?

RedFive said:
Would you prefer to be a SWO Nuke?
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SEALs maybe. Not sure about USN, but Israeli Navy frogmen had developed unusually high rates of cancer cases, perhaps due to their training places in rivers polluted by industry.
Everything that Kirov-class nukes of Russian Navy had possessed in relation to the health is avid alcoholism, btw.
 
ARAMP1 said:
No cancer that I know of, but after flying a plane with a super-high-power radar for one tour, there were 13 sets of twins or triplets born in the squadron. But, maybe that's just coincidence.
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More people are also doing IVF, which tends to produce twins, etc. you’d have to control for that in your theory.
 
Brett327 said:
More people are also doing IVF, which tends to produce twins, etc. you’d have to control for that in your theory.
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Well, my wife was on the pill when we had our twins and several of my buddies also weren't actively trying to have kids (though the topic of their preferred method of birth control never came up in casual conversation around the flight room) Lots of surprises in those couple years.
 
ARAMP1 said:
Well, my wife was on the pill when we had our twins and several of my buddies also weren't actively trying to have kids (though the topic of their preferred method of birth control never came up in casual conversation around the flight room) Lots of surprises in those couple years.
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Your anecdotes are acknowledged.
 
picklesuit said:
1-2% of births are from IVF. Your snark is acknowledged.
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That’s great, but not particularly useful information. While we’re throwing around anecdotes, I was in a squadron where three of the officers were in some phase of the IVF process, which is a lot more than 1-2%. The entire point of me bringing up IVF in the first place is as just one example of any number of plausible explanations for twins, because “the radar made my wife have twins” doesn’t carry a lot of scientific weight, IMO.
 
Brett327 said:
That’s great, but not particularly useful information. While we’re throwing around anecdotes, I was in a squadron where three of the officers were in some phase of the IVF process, which is a lot more than 1-2%. The entire point of me bringing up IVF in the first place is as just one example of any number of plausible explanations for twins, because “the radar made my wife have twins” doesn’t carry a lot of scientific weight, IMO.
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Your anecdote is acknowledged.
 
What about the girls vs. boys ratio? I've had medical professionals tell me this is a real thing but haven't seen any actual research on it of course.
 
Brett327 said:
“the radar made my wife have twins” doesn’t carry a lot of scientific weight, IMO.
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Like I said...it could all just be coincidence.



Or, it could stem from flying around one of the most high power radars ever put on an airplane.




Also, around that time, we all had a diet heavy in yams too...that also might have something to do with it.
 
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