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Cancer Is Top Killer Of Firefighters, So Millburn's Running A Prevention Seminar
The Millburn Fire Department will host a free firefighter cancer prevention seminar next month.
MILLBURN, NJ — The Millburn Fire Department will host a free all-day firefighter cancer prevention seminar next month. The event is open to firefighters.
NOTE: The event was previously scheduled for this weekend, but due to the storm, it will now be held Feb. 19 at Millburn High School.
"Cancer is the number one killer of firefighters," noted a release on the seminar. "Firefighters are getting cancer at a younger age, and these cancers are more aggressive and kill firefighters more quickly. There are many firefighters who have never been to the operations at Ground Zero who are coming down with firefighter cancers."
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This seminar will help firefighters reduce their exposure to occupational cancer. This seminar will be taught by some of the top experts in the field of firefighter cancer. The seminar will run from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The seminar will be held at Millburn Senior High school auditorium 462 Millburn Ave., Millburn.
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The Millburn firefighters put together the seminar along with the First Responder Center for Excellence and the Firefighters Cancer Support Network.
They passed along these facts:
- Cancer caused 66 percent of the career firefighter line-of-duty deaths from 2002 to 2019, according to data from the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF). Heart disease caused 18 percent of career LODDs for the same period.
- Firefighters have a 9 percent higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer and a 14 percent higher risk of dying from cancer than the general U.S. population, according to research by the CDC/National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH).
E-mail abrenner@millburntwp.org with any questions you may have.
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