A Study on the Prevalence of Cancer Disease among Aviation Workers in Korea with Aviation Medical Examination of the Years from 2013 to 2015 / 항공우주의학회지

ABSTRACT

Purpose@#The medical certification for pilots is required by the aviation safety authority based with the aviation safety act. @*Methods@#In this study, aeromedical decision results according to aviation medical examination of the years from 2013 to 2015 were reviewed by retrospective analysis. @*Results@#Data from a cumulative total of 19,459 cases were screened. Of these, 15% were determined to be fit with condition. Among them, 259 were diagnosed with cancer. The ratios by cancer type are as follows the most common cancer was thyroid cancer (39.7%), followed by gastric cancer (12.1%), kidney cancer (7.9%), colorectal cancer (7.9%), skin cancer (7.9%), prostate cancer (7.5%), lymphoma/leukemia (5.9%), lung cancer (5.0%), head and neck cancer (2.5%), and other cancers (2.5%). @*Conclusion@#The number of aircrew with cancer tends to increase slightly every year.The most common cause of thyroid cancer seems to be due to excessive diagnostic activity.