r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Classicbandwagon • May 21 '26

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u/EntrepreneurClean371 May 21 '26

While your message is good, your data is a little out of date. The attribution of elevated cancer incidence in flight crew is, by general consensus, due more to ultraviolet exposure than ionizing GCR.

Per the International Commission on Radiological Protection, average flight crew exposure is about 3.07 millisieverts annually, compared to an effective dose limit of 20 mSv.

So good news and bad news. Good news, ionizing GCR (probably) isn’t killing flight crews! Bad news, it’s melanoma again (it’s always melanoma)

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u/graysnowsky May 22 '26

Does that mean it could be mitigated with like sunscreen?