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The National Firefighter Registry
can help shape

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how cancer impacts us by looking at data.

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I was diagnosed with prostate
cancer in late 2021.

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Imagine if they could go back

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and compare me to other firefighters
at other incidents and say, “You know what?

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"We have a cluster here
where a number of you

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"were at a certain incident and a number of
you have developed prostate cancer.

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"And because of that,
we now identified that this chemical

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or this environment
or this gear needs to be changed.”

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So without data, we're going to be where
we are right now with firefighter cancer.

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But as far as the data,
we don't have a whole lot yet.

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And I'm one of the lucky ones.
I'm still here.

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But there are some firefighters that are
dealing with some horrific battles

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in cancer.

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And those folks are really the
ones we need to do this for.