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Firefighters and cancer

30 Jul 2015

S.! Preventative!Services!Task!Force).! In!the!appendix!section!of!this!publication!is!a!sample!letter!that!firefighters!are!welcome!to!print!out! and! take! to! their!primary!care!physicians! in!order! to! initiate!a! cancer! screening!and!surveillance! program.! *Understanding*Cancer*Risk*within*the*Profession*of*Firefighting* It!is!clear!from!the!extensive!research!that!has!been!conducted!that! [...] D.!et!al.!2015.!!Smoking!and!Mortality:!Beyond!Established!Causes.!New!England!Journal!of! Medicine.!372:631E640.!DOI:!10.1056/NEJMsa1407211! Choi,!B.,!Schnall,!P.,!Dobson,!M.,!Israel,!L.,!Landsbergis,!P.,!Galassetti,!P.,!and!Baker,!D.!2011.!“Exploring! Occupational! and! Behavioral! Risk! Factors! for! Obesity! in! Firefighters:! A! Theoretical! Framework! and! Study! Design.”! Safety' and' Healt [...] M.,!et!al.!2015.!ExposureEResponse!Relationships!for!Select!Cancer! and!NonECancer!Health!Outcomes!in!a!Cohort!of!US!Firefighters!From!San!Francisco,!Chicago! And!Philadelphia!(1950E2009).!Occupational'and'Environmental'Medicine!0:!1E8.! Dongmug,!K.! et! al.! 2008.! “Cancer! Incidence! among!Male!Massachusetts! Firefighters,! 1987–2003.”! American' Journal' of' Industrial' Medicine! 51(5):! 329–33 [...] K.!et!al.!2012.!“Alcohol!Use!among!Firefighters!in!the!Central!United!States.”!Occupational' Medicine.!Published!online!Oct!12,!2012.!doi:!10.1093/occmed/kqs162! Haddock,! K.,! Poston,!W.! C.,! Jitnarin,! N.,! and! Jahnke,! S.! A.! 2013.! “Excessive! Daytime! Sleepiness! in! Firefighters! in! the! Central! United! States.”! Journal' of' Occupational' and' Environmental' Medicine'55(4):!416E423.!do [...] S.! Fire! Service:!Perspectives!from!the!Firehouse.”!American'Journal'of'Health'Promotion!27(2):!111E 118.!Retrieved!from!EBSCO!HOST!May!29,!2015.! Jahnke,!S.!A.,!Poston,!W.!C.,!Haddock,!C.!K.,!Jitnarin,!N.,!Hyder,!M.!L.,!and!Horvath,!C.!2012.!“The!Health! of!Women! in! the! US! fire! service.”!BMC'Women's' Health! 12(1):! 39E50.! doi:10.1186/1472E 6874E12E39! ! 16! ! ! Jitnarin,!N.,!Haddock,! C.!
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Dow, Martha, Kunz, Kenneth, Thomas, Larry, Garis, Len

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