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SFFCPF is dedicated to securing grant funding to implement and collaborate on research studies examining the known link between firefighting toxic exposures and cancer. We collaborate with major research institutions (UCSF, UC Berkeley and Stanford), as well as, organizations focused on biomonitoring and the analysis of firefighting gear and firefighting foam for the presence of toxic chemicals. We will not stop searching until there is a cure.
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New Threats Put Wildfire Fighters’ Health on the Line
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U.N. Expert Committee Recommends Global Elimination of Toxic Chemical Harming Health of Firefighters
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Health, Wildfires & Climate Change in California – Recommendations for Action
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New Study Confirms High PFAS Blood Levels Among Firefighters
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The Most Common Cancer for Men is Still a Mystery to Science — but 9/11 First Responders are Giving Researchers Fresh Clues
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Study Tests Immunotherapy in People with Cancer and Autoimmune Diseases
By NIH Cancer Institute Researchers have launched a clinical trial to test an immunotherapy drug in patients who [...]
Elevated Mercury Found in Blood of Some SF Firefighters Who Battled Tubbs Fire
By The San Francisco Chronicle According to an article by The San Francisco Chronicle, Some San Francisco firefighters [...]
Study Finds Firefighters Had Increased Chemicals in their Systems After Tubbs Fire
By The San Francisco Examiner According to a recent study we did, San Francisco firefighters who responded to [...]
Firefighters Exposed to Mercury During Tubbs Fire, New Study Shows
By KTVU A new study shows that dozens of firefighters who battled a deadly wildfire two years ago [...]
Cancer’s Trick for Dodging the Immune System
By New York Times Cancer immunotherapy drugs, which spur the body’s own immune system to attack tumors, hold [...]
Intervening in glial cells protects neurons in Parkinson’s model
By Buck Institue Loss of dopaminergic neurons is a hallmark of Parkinson’s disease pathology. When dopaminergic neurons are [...]
Women Firefighters and Breast Cancer: Mapping the Exposome to Uncover On-the-Job Risk Factors
By the Silent Spring Institute and the Women Firefighters' Biomonitoring Collaborative Most of what is known about cancer [...]
Fire Gear Laboratory Test Results (Dr. Graham Peaslee)
By Station Pride No 1 In January 2018, Dr. Graham Peaslee, the Professor of Experimental Nuclear Physics at [...]
Findings from a Study of Cancer among U.S. Fire Fighters
By NIOSH In 2010, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) began a multi-year study of [...]
Firefighters May Face Increased Risk of Cancer
By MedicalResearch.com In 2010, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) researchers, with funding assistance from the U.S. [...]
Firefighter Research Shows PPE Exposure Risk
By Jeffery O. and Grace G. Stull New testing examines how particles can penetrate firefighter protective gear with [...]
Exposure–response relationships for select cancer and non- cancer health outcomes in a cohort of US firefighters from San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia (1950–2009)
By Daniels et al. A study has been released that examines exposure–response relationships between surrogates of firefighting exposure [...]
Biomonitoring in California Firefighters: Metals and Perfluorinated Chemicals
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) In a study that was released in 2015 by NCBI in the [...]
Firefighters at Greater Risk for Cancer
By Penobscot Bay Press The dangers to firemen on the job extend well beyond the possibilities of being [...]