2020

1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION Cohort name   Australian firefighter cohort Country   Australia Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed   Covers employed and volunteer firefighters in most States of Australia Name   Deborah Glass Institution   Monash University Email   deborah.glass@monash.edu Phone   +61399030554 Personal website   https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/deborah-glass Website   https://www.monash.edu/medicine/sphpm/coeh/researchprogram/ausfireftr Name of committee   Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee Contact Principal Investigator (name)   Deborah Glass Is this cohort part of a consortium? (name consortium)   No. Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort   Investigate cancer incidence and mortality in a national cohort of Australian firefighters Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)   Internal study population External study population (includes SMR/SIR studies) Inclusion criteria   Employed or volunteer firefighter for at least three months Exclusion criteria   Employed for less than three months Enrollment   Completed Age range at entry (main cohort)   Minimum Maximum Mean 34 Men at enrollment   30057 Participation rate at enrollment (if known)   100 Comments   Personal identifiers and employment data retrieved from HR databases 2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)   Death certificate Disease incidence records Use of registers (specify) Death certificate (specify)   Cause of death Disease incidence records (specify)   Cancer incidence Specify: Use of registers   Australian Cancer database and National Death Index First follow-up period (provide year)   2011 Last follow-up period (provide year)   2011 Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)   1 Participation at last follow-up (if known)   100 3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)   Job-employment records Occupational history/time frame   Lifetime Occupational coding performed   Yes Occupation (specify coding system used)   ASCO Industry (specify coding system used)   Not applicable Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)   Expert assessment Other (specify) Specify: Other   Incident database Main categories   Dusts and fibres Dusts and fibres | Organic dusts   Other (specify) Dusts and fibres | Organic dusts | Specify: Other   Particulate from fires Dusts and fibres | Other   Other Dusts and fibres | Other | Specify: Other   Other pyrolysis products during fires 4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)   Death certificates Registry-based Registry-based   Cancer incidence Mortality register Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)   Mortality Morbidity Diagnostic groups based on ICD10   C + D Neoplasms Other (specify) Other (specify)   All causes of death C + D Neoplasms   Benign neoplasm Carcinoma in situ Leukemia Malignant neoplasms gastro intes. system including liver, gall bladder, pancreas Malignant neoplasm lung Mesothelioma Other malignant neoplasm of respiratory and intrathoracic organs, heart, pleura Malignant neoplasm of bone and articular cartilage Melanoma and other malignant neoplasms of skin Neoplasms connective and soft tissue including nerves Malignant neoplasm of breast Malignant neoplasms, females gynecological Malignant neoplasms of male genital organs Malignant neoplasm of urinary tract and kidney Malignant neoplasms of eye, brain and other parts of central nervous system Malignant neoplasms of thyroid and other endocrine glands Malignant neoplasms of ill-defined, secondary and unspecified sites Malignant neoplasm without specification of site including excl. leukemia Other, please state 6. Other Information   Smoking Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage   Cancer incidence Disease specific clinical database Hospital discharge Medication usage Mortality register Please describe plans that are funded or most likely to be funded   Recent grant awarded from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council to do a follow up cancer and mortality linkage and investigate PFAS exposure (firefighter foams).