Firefighters and Cancer

Physical Health Cancer
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glad i read this article. had no idea firefighters were more prone to cancer. take a read:

"Where’s there’s smoke there’s .... cancer?

Unfortunately for firefighters, that seems to be the case. One who knows is Niles Township Fire Lt. Bruce Vosburgh, a 38-year veteran of the department who managed to survive his own bout with the disease.

So, too, did his brother, Ralph Vosburgh Jr., and, at least for a while, his father, Ralph Sr. Ralph Jr. is also a Niles Township firefighter and Ralph Sr. was a founding member of the department.

“On my 31st birthday, I was diagnosed with testicular cancer,’’ 59-year-old Bruce Vosburgh recalled today. “I had had it removed before that but that’s when the doctor’s office called and confirmed that’s what it was.

“The doctor had told me he was 99 percent sure it was cancerous.’’"

read the whole thing here: http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20101020/News01/101029895/1130

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please if anyone can talk about this type of cancer i shall listen,,,ive made an apointment for my husband to go to sloan kettering in nyc,,,its so strange,,a man who worked so hard 6 days a week,can have a bad back for yrs,,,last 6 months back and forth to chriopratic,,they say your a truckdriver,,u r getting uggled around,,lets give u some therapy,or a hydrocortizone shot and sent him home,,,finally last wk he collapsed the pain felt like a kidney stone he went to the hospital,,they ran all kind of tests,,one dr says dont worry your husbands cat scan was perfect so is the blood work,,,next thing i know,i get a call 5 days later,its a tumor,,malignant one in his testical,and now a letter came in mail saying A UNSPECIFIED MALIGNANT LYMPHOMIA my god what is this,has anybody ever heard of this,,,i need as much support as possible,,,all my thanks,,,tammy