ReviewSafety and health at work2023
Firefighting and Cancer: A Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies in the Context of Cancer Hazard Identification.
Review in Safety and health at work, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06931561 (Occupational Cancer Screening in Firefighters), which is not on this map. Cited by 29 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Occupational Cancer Screening in Firefighters: A Pilot Study Within the Inova Health System
Who cites it
29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Occupational and environmental risk factors for salivary gland cancer: a systematic literature review.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2026Pooled it
- Bladder cancer risk factors: a comprehensive umbrella review of meta-analyses.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Risk factors for prostate cancer: An umbrella review of prospective observational studies and mendelian randomization analyses.PLoS medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Characteristics of Participants During the First Three Years of the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer, United States, January 2023-December 2025.American journal of industrial medicine · 2026Article
- Volatile per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and other semi-volatile organic chemicals in indoor air of fire stations: the influence of gear storage conditions.Environmental science. Processes & impacts · 2026Article
- Does tattoo exposure increase the risk of cutaneous melanoma? A population-based case-control study.European journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Colorectal cancer stage at diagnosis in male Florida firefighters.JNCI cancer spectrum · 2025Article
- Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, Occupational Exposures, and Thyroid Function Among US and Canadian Firefighters: A Cross-sectional Study.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2025Article
- A cross-sectional assessment of the individual- and fire department-level factors affecting volunteer firefighter cardiorespiratory fitness.Fire (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Firefighting, other protective service occupations and prostate cancer risk: a pooled analysis of three case-control studies.Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) · 2025Article
- Work Exposome and Related Disorders of Firefighters: An Overview of Systematized Reviews.Safety and health at work · 2025Review
- Interventions to Reduce Serum Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances Levels, Improve Cardiovascular Risk Profiles, and Improve Epigenetic Age Acceleration in US Firefighters: Protocol for Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Awareness and prevalence of testicular cancer among German firefighters.World journal of urology · 2025Article
- Urology on a changing planet: links between climate change and urological disease.Nature reviews. Urology · 2025Review
- Occupational exposures of firefighting and prostate cancer risk in the Norwegian Fire Departments Cohort.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2025Article
- Health effects of repeated exposures during wildland firefighting: a data-linkage cohort study from Alberta, Canada.Annals of work exposures and health · 2025Article
- Occupational hazards and bladder cancer-An umbrella review of the risk in workers exposed over the past 30 years.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Organizational health culture in the Korean firefighter intervention studies: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure in Trainee Firefighters Using PAH CALUX Bioassay.Toxics · 2024Article
- Cohort Profile: The Registry-based Epidemiological Study of Cancer in Fire Unit and Emergency Officers (RESCUE) cohort.International journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objective: We performed a meta-analysis of epidemiological results for the association between occupational exposure as a firefighter and cancer as part of the broader evidence synthesis work of the Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted to identify cohort studies of firefighters followed for cancer incidence and mortality. Studies were evaluated for the influence of key biases on results. Random-effects meta-analysis models were used to estimate the association between ever-employment and duration of employment as a firefighter and risk of 12 selected cancers. The impact of bias was explored in sensitivity analyses. Results: Among the 16 included cancer incidence studies, the estimated meta-rate ratio, 95% confidence interval (CI), and heterogeneity statistic (I Conclusions: There is epidemiological evidence to support a causal relationship between occupational exposure as a firefighter and certain cancers. Challenges persist in the body of evidence related to the quality of exposure assessment, confounding, and medical surveillance bias.
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