Firefighting Exposures and Cancer: An overview of IARC’s evaluation and its Impact [Video]

In June 2022, an International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Working Group of experts assembled to re-evaluate occupational exposure as a firefighter as a carcinogen. This webinar gives an overview of IARC’s decision and evidence to classify firefighting as a human carcinogen (Group I). Members of the Working Group highlight exposures to firefighters, cancer epidemiology in firefighters, and underlying carcinogenic mechanism evidence for this decision. Two experts conclude the webinar by providing best intervention and prevention practices for firefighters and discuss the broader impacts of this decision.

This video can also be viewed at
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/video/lo-res/NFR/Firefighting_Exposures_and_Cancer-IARC_evaluation_LoRes.mp4