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Cancer Hot Zone-- As if fighting fires wasn't already dangerous enough, firefighters also appear to be at serious risk for certain types of cancer, according to a UC study. Environmental health researchers Grace LeMasters and James Lockey looked at studies covering 110,000 firefighters and found rates of testicular cancer were 100 percent higher than the general population. Their work also reveals that firefighters -- in a profession prone to exposure to cancer-causing agents such as benzene, chloroform, soot, styrene, and formaldehyde-- are 50 percent more likely to fall ill with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and multiple myeloma. The risk for prostate cancer for those in uniform increased by 28 percent.

--Taken from UC Magazine February 2007