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The risk of cancer in firefighters
A L Golden1, S B Markowitz, P J Landrigan
1Division of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.
Occupational Medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.)
|October 1, 1995
Abstract:
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.