Findings from a study of cancer among U.S. fire fighters

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In 2010, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) began a multi-year study of nearly 30,000 fire fighters from the Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Fire Departments to better understand the potential link between fire fighting and cancer. The study was a joint effort led by researchers at NIOSH in collaboration with researchers at the National Cancer Institute and the University of California at Davis Department of Public Health Sciences, and supported in part by the U.S Fire Administration. This study was completed in late 2015
  
  ff-cancer-factsheet-final.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Firefighters Neoplasms Occupatinal Diseases
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  NIOSH Fire Fighter Cancer Study
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  4 unnumbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nm
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fc212ffe40d81d3a31a58b3effc1e69677b34f196a3ee4d72100ade1ff1f75461ca6cfe5455a6a54d80193f661efa77841c05c02adc5dfa9e36e93c8508510ab
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/40710/cdc_40710_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 118.51 KB ]