As a new or experienced firefighter, the importance of registering your information with the National Firefighter Registry cannot be overstated. We are in a time in our professional history where an enormous amount of information and data is being compiled about the causes of cancer in firefighters - but we have more work to do.

An important part of understanding and reducing work-related cancer is learning more about it. There are many unanswered questions about how cancer risk may vary across our nation’s diverse fire service. Signing up for the NFR for Cancer is one thing you can do to help researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) learn more about the relationship between firefighting and cancer.  This can ultimately help reduce cancer among firefighters for generations to come.

Each person that registers helps contribute more valuable data to researchers regardless of whether or not you have cancer. One person, one crew, one department, one town, one county at a time will help researcher at NIOSH/CDC move cancer to more of a chronic illness. Earlier detection offers better options for treatment and is likely to be less costly. 

Register today - for yourself, your fellow firefighters, and your family. It only takes 5 minutes to get started.

The NFR for Cancer is open to all U.S. firefighters with or without cancer, no matter your length of service.

Join today at NFR.CDC.gov