{"id":2865,"date":"2019-05-23T14:32:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T14:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2019-05-23T14:32:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T14:32:04","slug":"australian-pilots-not-at-higher-risk-of-melanoma-than-other-australians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/05\/23\/australian-pilots-not-at-higher-risk-of-melanoma-than-other-australians\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Pilots not at higher risk of melanoma than other Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, ARPANSA co-authored a new study which found that modern airline pilots registered in Australia, appear not to be at higher risk of developing invasive melanoma than the rest of the population.<br \/>\nThe study, led by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, has been published in the\u00a0<em>Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.<\/em><br \/>\nThis study is significant because it is a change from previous findings that focused on pilots in the northern hemisphere.<br \/>\nFor decades, previous research showed much higher risks of melanoma in European and North American pilots, compared to the general population.<br \/>\nThe Australian study was also conducted in collaboration with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).\u00a0QIMR Berghofer researcher and lead author, Associate Professor Catherine Olsen, said this study examined health information from more than 20,000 Australian licensed pilots.<br \/>\n\u2018We looked at de-identified medical records from 2011 to 2016 held by the\u00a0CASA, and found pilots in this country were not at a higher risk of developing invasive melanoma than the general population,\u2019 Associate Professor Olsen said.<br \/>\n\u2018These new findings may reflect that\u00a0conditions on airliner flights have changed,\u2019\u00a0added Dr. Rick Tinker, co-author of the study and Director of Assessment and Advice at ARPANSA.<br \/>\n\u2018Factors such as levels of short-wave solar ultraviolet radiation, which are the kind associated with melanoma, are mostly extremely low on today\u2019s airliner flight decks.\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018Other reasons why melanoma risk for pilots may have lowered, may be because pilots these days have different lifestyles and work practices. For example, they are expected to fly more and therefore have less layovers, especially in sunny destinations.\u2019<br \/>\nResearchers hope this study will be built on further, using contemporary data gathered from around the world, in order to confirm whether commercial pilots in other countries are also no longer at increased melanoma risk.<br \/>\nThe study was funded by the\u00a0<em>Australasian Society of Aerospace Medicine<\/em>.<br \/>\nFor more details on the study, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimrberghofer.edu.au\/category\/media-release\/\">QIMR Berghofer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, ARPANSA co-authored a new study which found that modern airline pilots registered in Australia, appear not to be at higher risk of developing invasive melanoma than the rest of the population. The study, led by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, has been published in the\u00a0Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. This study is significant &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/05\/23\/australian-pilots-not-at-higher-risk-of-melanoma-than-other-australians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australian Pilots not at higher risk of melanoma than other Australians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}