Cancer risks from cosmic radiation exposure in flight: A review

• Main Authors: Christopher Scheibler (Author), Sneh M. Toprani (Author), Irina Mordukhovich (Author), Matthew Schaefer (Author), Steven Staffa (Author), Zachary D. Nagel (Author), Eileen McNeely (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Aircrew (consisting of flight attendants, pilots, or flight engineers/navigators) are exposed to cosmic ionizing radiation (CIR) at flight altitude, which originates from solar activity and galactic sources. These exposures accumulate over time and are considerably higher for aircrew compared to the...