Systemic Exposure to PAHs and Benzene in firefighters supresing controlled structure fires
Cancer
The 346 000 career firefighters and 783 000 volunteer firefighters in the USA (NFPA, 2013a) are potentially exposed to a variety of different chemicals during fire suppression. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are components of incomplete combustion that can exist in both particle and gas phase.