French court recognizes flight attendant's breast cancer as occupational disease

Sophie Lainault developed breast cancer after 30 years as a flight attendant, now in remission; the ruling enables her early retirement and may support other affected workers.

After thirty years of night flights and recirculated air, a French court in Bayonne has recognized what two and a half years of legal struggle sought to establish: that Sophie Lainault's breast cancer was not misfortune but occupation. The ruling—the first of its kind in French aviation—rests on the slow arithmetic of cumulative harm, weaving together night shift disruption, altitude radiation, and decades of passive smoking into a legal acknowledgment that some illnesses are not personal but structural. In doing so, the court has opened a door that official disease lists had long kept closed,

French court recognizes flight attendant's breast cancer as occupational disease

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