Anyone develop prostate cancer after serving on EC121 Radar Planes?

I worked extensively on the F-18 Hornet radar system in the 80's. I'm sure I was in the line of fire a few times during that time.

Definitely recommend you apply for VA disability. I served as a US Army special operations helicopter pilot for over 20 years with multiple deployments to the middle east and numerous exposures to high-powered radars on Navy ships. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2021, which is 13 years after I retired, and in 2024 I filed for and subsequently awarded VA disability aligned with the PACT Act. You can file on the VA website (va.gov) and add your medial records / documents for evidence. Good Luck!

I have a friend who was a pilot for United. He developed prostate cancer stage 1. He thinks it was due to flying and said he discovered several pilots developed prostate cancer as pilots over the years.

JC, it’s possible. Highway patrol officers have been said to have increased rates of PCa from radar gun sitting in their laps!

Never thought of any connection to being so close and some many thousands of hours over radar. But got to thinking our radar went out 300 miles and was quite strong. Some of the equipment had radiation but that radar equipment was extremely strong.

I am going to check with VA about any connection that has come up. I have had great care for my prostate cancer at UFHPTI and Mayo Clinic so it is not trying to get treatment at VA. I just would like to know if being subjected to radar for 4,300 hours (Air Force keeps track of flight time) could have been a cause or at least contributed to the cause.

I have heard good things about the PACT Act.
Might do that.
Six years, USN, 68-74, Nuke subs......."hot rock" always there, we knew the film badges were dummied up (accidental experience), plus the Navy will neither confirm nor deny the presence of nuke weapons aboard their vessels.
Guess how much shielding on the warhead of a MK45 torpedo?
The incidences of cancers among our local SubVets is surprisingly high for those who served on nuke boats. As in, keep your calendars open for funerals.
Guys who served on diesel boats? Not anywhere near the levels.
Try applying. Worst they can do is say "no".

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300045
JC, check out this article - and others - on this site. Pretty compelling evidence for your situation.

I was on a radio logical monitoring team while in the Air Force in the 60s. During training they would hide a piece of radiation (forgot the proper terminology) and we would have to find it. We were exposed to a small amount of radiation which they kept track of. Went to an air base in Vietnam in 1968-69 where they stored agent orange but I was no involved with handling it. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer and was treated with TULSA PRO in Nov. 24 and this June 3rd my Dr. told me the cancer is gone. PSA dropped to 0.6 and prostate is getting smaller. The VA sent me for treatment however TULSA is new and they or other insurance won't cover it. I paid out of pocket. Since all Viet Nam veterans have been exposed to AO the VA paid for everything except for the actual TULSA procedure. This is the first time I considered that the radio logical monitoring experience may have contributed to my PA.

In one of my Veteran's Bulletins a couple of years ago.......AF guy who served during Vietnam, never in-country, came down with Agent Orange symptoms. VA denied his claim...."not in-country".
He obtained a photograph a friend had of him, on Guam, tower in the background, guarding pallets of drums labelled whatever it was that identified AO.
Claim accepted. He was on an island.....you're stationed on the same base, seems the VA would pull a finger out.
Other one I read, ANG in the south, young reservists coming down with AO exposure symptoms, 40-45 years after 'nam. Nobody could figure it out.
Some old timer had a thought.
Went out and pulled the deck plates up on the old C-130's......everything wet with AO from transporting during 'nam. I think I read they burned the aircraft, couldn't clean it out.

I developed prostate cancer years after I responded to 9/11 WTC as a first responder. In 2018 I developed prostate cancer related to 9/11. Anyone out there with similar situation?