List of cancers linked to wildland firefighting grows to include several largely affecting women

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Several years ago, the Department of Labor and then Congress recognized that firefighters are at heightened risk for a number of cancers and other serious diseases. That made it easier to file worker compensation claims. Absent from the list of so-called presumptive conditions were cancers that largely affect women. But this week, the department announced that list would grow to include ovarian, breast and uterine cancer, as well as basal cell carcinoma.

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