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How to protect wildland firefighters from cancer risk

What On Earth by CBC

Jun 20, 202600:22:02Science & Medicine

Years after working in smoky, sooty conditions controlling fires, workers can experience the adverse health effects of the job. Proving the link can be difficult. But now in British Columbia, wildland firefighters are ge...

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How to protect wildland firefighters from cancer risk is an episode from What On Earth by CBC. Years after working in smoky, sooty conditions controlling fires, workers can experience the adverse health effects of the job. Proving the link...

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Published Jun 20, 2026, 00:22:02 long, audio available.