Publications

We undertook a service evaluation to identify respiratory and employment outcomes of FFAs with a history of asthma who had undergone additional respiratory assessment at our specialist occupational lung disease clinic during 2005–19.

Using next-generation sequencing and a panel that detects pathogenic DNA variants linked to various cancers, we analysed a subset of 261 firefighters. Our findings revealed that 11 firefighters carried pathogenic DNA variants associated with cancer, but we found no association between fire smoke exposure and the presence of these variants.