| 1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION |
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Cohort name
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Australian firefighter cohort
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Country
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Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed
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Covers employed and volunteer firefighters in most States of Australia
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Name
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Deborah Glass
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Institution
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Monash University
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Email
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deborah.glass@monash.edu
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Phone
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+61399030554
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Personal website
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https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/deborah-glass
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Website
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- https://www.monash.edu/medicine/sphpm/coeh/researchprogram/ausfireftr
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Name of committee
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Monash University Human Research Ethics Committee
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Contact Principal Investigator (name)
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Deborah Glass
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Is this cohort part of a consortium? (name consortium)
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No.
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Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
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Investigate cancer incidence and mortality in a national cohort of Australian firefighters
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Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Internal study population
- External study population (includes SMR/SIR studies)
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Inclusion criteria
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Employed or volunteer firefighter for at least three months
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Exclusion criteria
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Employed for less than three months
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Enrollment
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Completed
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Age range at entry (main cohort)
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Men at enrollment
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30057
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Participation rate at enrollment (if known)
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100
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Comments
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Personal identifiers and employment data retrieved from HR databases
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| 2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP |
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Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Death certificate
- Disease incidence records
- Use of registers (specify)
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Death certificate (specify)
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Disease incidence records (specify)
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Specify: Use of registers
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- Australian Cancer database and National Death Index
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First follow-up period (provide year)
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2011
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Last follow-up period (provide year)
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2011
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Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
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1
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Participation at last follow-up (if known)
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100
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| 3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES |
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Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
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Occupational history/time frame
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Lifetime
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Occupational coding performed
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Yes
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Occupation (specify coding system used)
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Industry (specify coding system used)
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Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Expert assessment
- Other (specify)
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Specify: Other
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Incident database
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Main categories
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Dusts and fibres | Organic dusts
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Dusts and fibres | Organic dusts | Specify: Other
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Particulate from fires
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Dusts and fibres | Other
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Dusts and fibres | Other | Specify: Other
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Other pyrolysis products during fires
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| 4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED |
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Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
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- Death certificates
- Registry-based
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Registry-based
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- Cancer incidence
- Mortality register
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Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
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Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
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- C + D Neoplasms
- Other (specify)
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Other (specify)
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All causes of death
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C + D Neoplasms
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- 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
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| 6. Other Information |
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Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
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- Cancer incidence
- Disease specific clinical database
- Hospital discharge
- Medication usage
- Mortality register
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Please describe plans that are funded or most likely to be funded
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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).
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