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The National Firefighter Registry for Cancer (NFR) is a voluntary registry of firefighters in the United States used to evaluate cancer rates and risk factors in the U.S. fire service through collecting relevant occupational, lifestyle, and health information on firefighters. It aims to use these data to reduce cancer in firefighters.
This study was a retrospective, case-control study that compared smoking habits of 684 individuals with bronchogenic carcinoma to those without the condition. [12] The survey included questions about smoking: starting age, 20 year tobacco consumption, brands used; as well as inquires about exposure to hazardous agents in the workplace, alcohol use, and causes of death for family members.
After the conclusion of World War II, U.S. military researchers obtained formulas for the three nerve gases developed by the Nazis—tabun, soman, and sarin.. In 1947, the first steps of planning began when Dr. Alsoph H. Corwin, a professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins University [4] [5] wrote the Chemical Corps Technical Command positing the potential for the use of specialized enzymes as so ...
The International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2022 declared occupational exposure during firefighting to be a "group 1 carcinogen," meaning it causes cancer in humans, akin to tobacco and ...
Cancer has replaced heart disease as the biggest killer of firefighters, and the International Association of Fire Fighters or IAFF attributes 66% of firefighter deaths between 2002 and 2019 to ...
Research has identified several major challenges in this field: an overabundance of lab research and a lack of field studies, the presence of testing effects that impede intervention longevity and scalability, modest effects for small fractions of relevant audiences, reliance on item evaluation tasks as primary efficacy measures, low ...
For many firefighters, the additional time these tests could provide would be the difference between life and death. Guest column: New cancer test lifesaver for firefighters Skip to main content
He plagiarized as many as 60 papers in the field of cancer research, many with non-existent co-authors. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Werner Bezwoda (South Africa), formerly of the University of Witwatersrand , admitted to scientific misconduct in trials on high-dose chemotherapy on breast cancer , stating that he had "committed a serious breach of ...