Firefighters and cancer: where are we and where to now?

Affiliations

¹ School of Public Health, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
² Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, SPHPM, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Comment

Lin Fritschi et al. Occup Environ Med. 2014 Aug.

. 2014 Aug;71(8):525-6.

doi: 10.1136/oemed-2014-102230. Epub 2014 Jul 4.

¹ School of Public Health, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia, Australia.
² Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, SPHPM, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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