FIREFIGHTER CANCER AWARENESS MONTH

In partnership with the International Association of Fire Fighters, the Firefighter Cancer Support Network (FCSN) has designed January as Firefighter Cancer Awareness Month. Throughout the month, firefighters will be provided with the necessary tools and guidance to develop life-saving protocols for cancer prevention and to support those with cancer diagnoses.

 

Firefighter Cancer Awareness Month is focusing on “Doing it Right.” See FCSN’s White Paper and website “Doing it Right- Reducing Cancer in the Fire Service: a Groundbreaking Resource for Firefighters, EMS Providers, and Their Families." Since 2005, FCSN has been a lifeline for thousands of cancer-stricken firefighters, offering one-on-one mentoring, critical support, and hope when it is needed most.

 

The website is designed to engage the nation’s firefighters and their fire departments in a mass effort to prevent and reduce their risk of cancer. The curriculum contains information and tools that educate firefighters and raise awareness of the increase in cancer cases and how to prevent day-to-day exposures to carcinogens.

 

Each week in January a specific theme is presented.  Firefighters will have the knowledge and resources to understand how firefighters are exposed to carcinogens, effects of exposure, prevention to exposures, making cultural changes in department and aid when diagnosed with cancer.