New Firefighter Cancer Registry will help to monitor cancer incidents

U.S. Fire Administration sent this bulletin at 07/19/2018 02:08 PM EDT

New Firefighter Cancer Registry will help to monitor cancer incidents

Current Issues and Events | July 19, 2018
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On July 7, President Trump signed the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2018. The Act requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop and maintain a voluntary registry of firefighters. The registry will include the number and type of fires each firefighter attended.

Information in the registry will be used to improve monitoring of cancer incidents among firefighters and to collect and publish information about the occurrences of cancer among this population. Registry data will be available to researchers for free if the findings of the research are made public.

 

Learn more about the Firefighter Cancer Registry in today's Current Issues and Events article on the USFA website.

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