Firefighter Work Linked to Prostate Cancer Risk?

When it comes to lung cancer, we know of more than 30 substances that are carcinogenic. But when researchers began investigating why there is a higher incidence of prostate cancer in firefighters, they had little to go on.

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Researcher Niki Marjerrison compared the incidence of prostate cancer among those firefighters who had been most involved with firefighting with those who had been the least involved. (Photo: Cecilie B. Høstmark, UiO)

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