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Keeping Our Heroes Safe: A Team Effort to Fight Cancer in the Fire Service

May 11, 2026 CCTS

For years, the firefighting community has faced a grim reality: firefighters develop cancer and other chronic illnesses at significantly higher rates than the public. To tackle this crisis, the University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center established the Sylvester Firefighter Cancer Initiative (FCI), a program designed to bridge the gap between scientific discoveries in a […]

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