The Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study: Protocol for a Longitudinal Occupational Cohort Study

Jefferey L Burgess   ¹ , MD, MPH, MS ;   Shawn C Beitel   ¹ , MSc ;   Miriam M Calkins   ² , PhD ;   Melissa A Furlong   ¹ , PhD ;   Paola Louzado Feliciano   ³ , MS ;   Jamie Kolar Gabriel   ⁴ ;   Casey Grant   ⁵ , MS ;   Jaclyn M Goodrich   ⁶ , PhD ;   Judith M Graber   ⁷ , PhD ;   Olivia Healy   ¹ , BS ;   James Hollister   ⁸ , MS ;   Jeff Hughes   ⁹ ;   Sara Jahnke   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Krystal Kern   ¹ , MA ;   Frank A Leeb   ¹¹ ;   Alberto J Caban-Martinez   ¹² , CPH, MPH, PhD, DO ;   Alexander C Mayer   ² , MPH ;   Russell Osgood   ¹³ ;   Cynthia Porter   ⁸ , MS ;   Sreenivasan Ranganathan   ¹⁴ , PhD ;   Heather M Stapleton   ¹⁵ , PhD ;   Natasha Schaefer Solle   ¹² , RN, PhD ;   Christine Toennis   ² , BS ;   Derek J Urwin   ^{4, 16} , PhD ;   Michelle Valenti   ⁸ , MPH ;   John J Gulotta   ¹⁷ , AAS

¹ Department of Community, Environment and Policy, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States

² National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cincinnati, OH, United States

³ Department of Medicine, State University of New York Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States

⁴ Los Angeles County Fire Department, Los Angeles, CA, United States

⁵ D&S Research Associates and Engineers LLC, Belmont, MA, United States

⁶ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Publich Health, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

⁷ Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, United States

⁸ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States

⁹ Orange County Fire Authority, Irvine, CA, United States

¹⁰ Center for Fire, Rescue & EMS Health Research, National Development and Research Institutes, Leawood, KS, United States

¹¹ First Responder Center for Excellence, Crofton, MD, United States

¹² Department of Public Health Sciences, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States

¹³ Firefighter Cancer Support Network, Burbank, CA, United States

¹⁴ Fire Protection Research Foundation, Quincy, MA, United States

¹⁵ Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States

¹⁶ Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

¹⁷ Tucson Fire Department, Tucson, AZ, United States