The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is seeking suggestions for experts to participate in the new consensus study on cancer prevalence and mortality among individuals who served on active duty in the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps as an aircrew member of a fixed-wing aircraft. The committee will examine the types of exposures experienced by these service members and review scientific evidence on whether those exposures may be linked to cancer. The committee will also assess available data on cancer rates, illness, and deaths among veterans who began serving in 1990 or later. Using these suggestions, National Academies staff will be looking to build a committee of approximately 12 volunteer experts in addition to collecting information for potential speakers, participants, and peer reviewers for any publications resulting from the activity. Based on the Statement of Task, staff are looking for expertise particularly in the following areas:
- Environmental epidemiology
- Cancer epidemiology
- Occupational health
- Toxicology
- Health physics
- Computational dosimetry
- Cancer biology
- Clinical medicine
- Biostatistics
- Aerospace medicine
- Veterans' health