What will the Registry address?
- Firefighters have increased risk of certain cancers, but questions remain:
- What is the cancer risk for:Minority Firefighters? Female Firefighters? Volunteers?
- How does cancer risk vary
- Among more recent firefighters (with increasing synthetic materials in buildings)
- With adoption of control interventions
- Consistent use of SCBA, decontamination measures, laundering, hood exchange programs,etc.
- Geographically
- With increasing exposures