Cancer-Related Behavioral Risk Factors Among Volunteer and Career Firefighters Enrolled in the Cancer Assessment and Prevention Study (CAPS) and the Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study (FFCCS).

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• Alternative Title:
  International Fire Service Journal of Leadership and Management, 2025, v. 18: Cancer-Related Behavioral Risk Factors Among Volunteer and Career Firefighters Enrolled in the Cancer Assessment and Prevention Study (CAPS) and the Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study (FFCCS).
• Journal Article:
  International Fire Service Journal of Leadership and Management
• Personal Author:
  Graber, Judith M. ; Shah, Nimit N. ; Berezniak, John G. ; Black, Taylor M. ; Black, Kathleen ; Lu, Shou-en ; Laumbach, Robert J. ; Edwards, Derrick L. ; Koeppel, Maria D. H. ; Jahnke, Sara A. ; Austin, Elena ; Steinberg, Michael B. ; Calkins, Miriam M. ; Caban-Martinez, Alberto J ; Hinton, Kaleigh ; Lubina, Katherine A. ; Metlitz, Samantha P. ; Grant, Casey ; Osgood, Russell F. ; Gulotta, John ; Kubiel, Brian S. ; Burgess, Jefferey L.
• Description:
  Although nearly two-thirds of U.S. firefighters serve as volunteers, they are rarely included in studies of firefighters' health. The Firefighter Cancer Assessment and Prevention Study (CAPS), a research component of the Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study (FFCCS), has enrolled over 600 U.S. volunteer firefighters to help address this gap. This study found a greater prevalence of cancer-related health behaviors among volunteers compared to career firefighters. These behaviors included cigarette smoking, heavy alcohol use, and obesity. While the differences in behaviors varied between U.S. states, all state-level prevalences were higher among volunteer firefighters than career firefighters. The findings of this study support the need to provide volunteer firefighters with overall and targeted health promotion and cancer prevention programs.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Cigarette Smoking
  • Cohort Studies
  • Firefighters
  • Prevalence
  • Neoplasms
  • Health Promotion
  • Health Behavior
  • Volunteers
  • Obesity
• Keywords:
  • firefighter
  • volunteer firefighter
  • cancer-related health behaviors
  • research
  • cancer prevention
• Source:
  International Fire Service Journal of Leadership and Management, 2025, v. 18
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(07)70099-2
• Pubmed ID:
  40162371
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11951304
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; F31 HL160196/HL/NHLBI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; T42 OH008422/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Pages in Document:
  22-36 (24 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  18
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/261543/cdc_261543_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 916.65 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ddff871b25ca9ade07c218f2368a9a5e269aafcf221828a1b043ce444c191247df6c466d1bd3126e674aaf9664d232cc9b11ea5b6864d40263255885fe055441