Extraterrestrial Gynecology: Could Spaceflight Increase the Risk of Developing Cancer in Female Astronauts? An Updated Review.

astronaut health female reproductive system gynecological cancers microgravity space exploration space radiation

Journal

International journal of molecular sciences
ISSN: 1422-0067
Titre abrégé: Int J Mol Sci
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101092791

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
05 Jul 2022
Historique:
received: 07 06 2022
revised: 03 07 2022
accepted: 04 07 2022
entrez: 9 7 2022
pubmed: 10 7 2022
medline: 14 7 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Outer space is an extremely hostile environment for human life, with ionizing radiation from galactic cosmic rays and microgravity posing the most significant hazards to the health of astronauts. Spaceflight has also been shown to have an impact on established cancer hallmarks, possibly increasing carcinogenic risk. Terrestrially, women have a higher incidence of radiation-induced cancers, largely driven by lung, thyroid, breast, and ovarian cancers, and therefore, historically, they have been permitted to spend significantly less time in space than men. In the present review, we focus on the effects of microgravity and radiation on the female reproductive system, particularly gynecological cancer. The aim is to provide a summary of the research that has been carried out related to the risk of gynecological cancer, highlighting what further studies are needed to pave the way for safer exploration class missions, as well as postflight screening and management of women astronauts following long-duration spaceflight.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35806469
pii: ijms23137465
doi: 10.3390/ijms23137465
pmc: PMC9267413
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Subventions

Organisme : European Cooperation in Science and Technology
ID : CA18117

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Auteurs

Rosa Drago-Ferrante (R)

BioDNA Laboratories, Malta Life Sciences Park, SGN 3000 San Gwann, Malta.

Riccardo Di Fiore (R)

Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, MSD 2080 Msida, Malta.
Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Center for Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.

Fathi Karouia (F)

Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Exobiology Branch, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
Space Research Within Reach, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Yashwanth Subbannayya (Y)

Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR), Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine (IKOM), Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.

Saswati Das (S)

Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Medical Sciences and Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi 110001, India.

Begum Aydogan Mathyk (B)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, HCA Healthcare/University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine GME, Brandon Regional Hospital, Brandon, FL 33511, USA.

Shehbeel Arif (S)

The Cooper Neurological Institute, Cooper University Health Care, Cherry Hill, NJ 08002, USA.
The G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.

Ana Paula Guevara-Cerdán (AP)

Molecular and Cellular Biology, School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.

Allen Seylani (A)

School of Medicine, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.

Aman Singh Galsinh (AS)

School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK.

Weronika Kukulska (W)

School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK.

Joseph Borg (J)

Department of Applied Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, MSD 2080 Msida, Malta.

Sherif Suleiman (S)

Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, MSD 2080 Msida, Malta.

David Marshall Porterfield (DM)

Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.

Andrea Camera (A)

Ordine dei Medici Chirurghi e degli Odontoiatri della Provincia di Brescia, 25124 Brescia, Italy.

Lane K Christenson (LK)

Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3075 HLSIC, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA.

April Elizabeth Ronca (AE)

NASA Ames Research Center, Space Biosciences Division, Moffett Field, CA 94568, USA.
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA.

Jonathan G Steller (JG)

Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of California Irvine, Orange, CA 92868, USA.
Exploration Medical Capability Element, NASA Johnson Space Center, 2400 E NASA Parkway, Houston, TX 77058, USA.

Afshin Beheshti (A)

KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.

Jean Calleja-Agius (J)

Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Malta, MSD 2080 Msida, Malta.

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