But so many people have contracted cancer and the medics don’t know why or how. Some of them might be because they wore a luminous watch when a child, played in an old cockpit in a scrapyard – who knows???

Roger Smith.

Hi Roger,

Elliots very enlightening report must surely put to bed, that any risk due to direct exposure to instruments in normal operation by presentation to, is non exisitant. Even painting the dials without licking the brush was a pretty safe pastime. Licking the brushes was clearly the elephant in the room.

Yes you are correct, Cancers and their origins can be difficult if not impossible to predict their causes.

It would be an act of absolute folly to speculate and then conclude, without a similar detailed historic survey, that for example playing in a cockpit as a child or wearing an old luminous watch has an elevated risk at all.