Former fighter pilots developing aggressive cancers: Is radar to blame?

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Former fighter pilots are developing especially intrusive forms of cancer, and some suspect it’s from exposure to intense radar systems.

“We are dropping like flies in our 50s from aggressive cancers,” retired Air Force Col. Eric Nelson, a former F-15 weapons officer, told McClatchy.

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