The risk of cancer in firefighters.
A substantial body of literature now exists on the carcinogenic hazards of firefighting. The authors discuss in detail the data on the carcinogens benzene, asbestos, PAHS, formaldehyde, and diesel exhaust, and they go on to examine the prevalent cancers in firefighters, including leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and cancer of the brain and bladder.
Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.
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Golden
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Markowitz
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Landrigan
D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005390:Fires; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011379:Prognosis; D018570:Risk Assessment
D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational