Air Force will have answer on pilot cancers next year, study goes on despite COVID-19
By Tara Copp
April 23, 2020 04:49 PM, Updated April 23, 2020 04:49 PM
A former pilot and squadron commanding officer did some of his own research and found of all squadron commanders of Navy carrier aircraft from 1985 to 2001 were 3 times more likely to develop cancer than their civilian counterparts. By Meta Viers | Tara Copp | Ben Wieder and Shirsho Dasgupta
WASHINGTON
The Air Force has finalized the terms of a groundbreaking study sought by former fighter pilots to determine whether military aviators are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer.
For more than a year, retired Air Force fighter pilots have pressed the service to look at the number of aviators who have either died from, or are fighting various types of cancers, and to look for potential causes.
The Air Force late last year announced it would conduct a first-of-its-kind study of all cancers among its former pilots, a review that may be replicated by the Navy for its aviators depending on what the results reveal.
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