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Firefighters are 9% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer, and 14% more likely to die from cancer than the general public, according to the union representing Des Moines' firefighters.
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 ...
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.
The Firefighter Cancer Assessment and Prevention Study that recently wrapped up tested 603 volunteer firefighters across the country - 91 of whom were Maine-based - and of those, 50 were York ...
Firefighters have shown higher rates of certain types of cancer (respiratory, digestive, and urinary systems), and of all cancers combined, when compared to the general U.S. population. [9] This is linked to many aspects of the firefighting occupation such as exposure to smoke and other products of combustion that are known carcinogens, as well ...
Research into line-of-duty deaths for firefighters has shown that 18% result from cardiac arrest — and 67% from cancer, according to Dr. Christine Kannler, a Manchester dermatologist who has ...
No firefighters were killed at the telephone building site during the fire, but many later developed cancer attributed to the chemical toxins that were released during the fire. [11] The burning toxins from the PVC insulated wiring that burned has shown heightened risks of cancer years after exposure.
Two days before his birth in December 2021, Beckham Botts was diagnosed with neuroblastoma — a cancer that commonly occurs in and around the adrenal gland and affects children age 5 or younger ...