Going from the lab into the fire to study cancer risk in wildland firefighters

Cancer researchers astatine the Sylvester Firefighter Cancer Initiative (SFCI), portion of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, took a uncommon measurement to amended recognize the crab risks wildland firefighters face: They became wildland firefighters themselves. The firsthand acquisition is shaping a caller survey of smoke, heat, dense cogwheel and biology exposures arsenic Wildland Firefighter Week of Remembrance, June 30–July 6, brings nationalist attraction to the dangers of the job.