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Firefighter urges state funding to expand California firefighter cancer research
Summary
A Los Angeles County firefighter and researcher told lawmakers the state’s firefighter cancer research program needs larger, long‑term cohort studies and sustained funding to understand health risks from intense structure‑and‑wildland firefighting exposures.
Derek Erwin, an LA County firefighter and adjunct professor who conducts firefighter cancer research at UCLA, urged the Legislature to expand funding for the California Firefighter Cancer Prevention and Research Program so researchers can establish large longitudinal studies and develop interventions.
Erwin told the joint hearing that firefighting is classified as a Group 1 occupational carcinogen and that California firefighters…
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