Firefighter cancer is a serious topic and worse than people think. Here is a snapshot of a paper released by the Firefighter Cancer Support Network. The link at the bottom takes you to the full report: Firefighter cancer is a looming personal catastrophe for each and every firefighter. Cancer is the most dangerous and unrecognized threat to the health and safety of our nation’s firefighters. Multiple studies, including the soon-to-be-released NIOSH cancer study, have repeatedly demonstrated credible evidence and biologic creditability for statistically higher rates of multiple types of cancers in firefighters compared to the general American population including: ■■ Testicular cancer (2.02 times greater risk) ■■Multiple myeloma (1.53 times greater risk) ■■Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (1.51 times greater risk) ■■ Skin cancer (1.39 times greater risk) ■■ Prostate cancer (1.28 times greater risk) ■■Malignant melanoma (1.31 times great risk) ■■ Brain cancer (1.31 times greater risk) ■■ Colon cancer (1.21 times great risk) ■■ Leukemia (1.14 times greater risk) ■■ Breast cancer in women (preliminary study results from the San Francisco Fire Department) We are just beginning to understand the horrific magnitude of the problem, the depth of our naiveté, the challenges involved and the changes required in education, training, operations, medical screenings and personal accountability to effectively address cancer in the fire service. firefightercancersupport.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Taking-Action-against-Cancer-in-the-Fire-Service.pdf
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:32:23 +0000
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