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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Lucy Thornton

Hero firefighters diagnosed with cancer at rate 1.6 times higher than UK population

Firefighters are being diagnosed with cancer at an “alarming rate” and must be given proper health screening, MPs have been warned.

Figures revealed the mortality rate for all cancers is 1.6 times higher than in the general population.

And the data came from a study the Fire Brigade Union was forced to commission itself because research on the safety of firefighters is so bad.

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