Evaluating Causation for Occupational Cancer Among Firefighters: Report to the Workers’ Compensation Board of Manitoba
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Evaluating causality for occupational cancers: the example of firefighters.
BACKGROUND The evaluation of causality in cancers associated with firefighting presents problems common to other applications of occupational epidemiology in adjudication of individual claims for workers' compensation. A trend in Canada to establish legislated presumptions for compensation of firefighters created an opportunity to re-evaluate the literature applying medicolegal standards of cer...
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