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Firefighters and Cancer

Very alarming article and study from the Chicago Tribune.   

The Firefighter Cancer Support Network, maintains cancer was the cause of 70 percent of career firefighter line-of-duty deaths in 2016, with firefighters having a 14 percent higher risk of dying from the disease than the public.

Those numbers do not include cancer deaths among the roughly 814,000 volunteer firefighters, who represent about 70 percent of the 1.16 million firefighters nationwide, according to the National Fire Protection Association.

Read the full article here:  https://graphics.chicagotribune.com/firefighter-cancer/index.html

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