Fort Worth firefighters volunteered to get screened for a cancer considered among the deadliest. It’s one doctors say firefighters have a 60% higher risk of developing.
The Fort Worth Fire Department has teamed up with some local healthcare workers for a potentially life-saving project.Firefighters are at a high risk of esophageal cancer. That’s why screenings are being offered to help catch that health concern quickly. Firefighters are routinely exposed to dangerous carcinogens that can cause disease.The city of Fort Worth is currently taking steps to focus on their risk of esophageal cancer.
So we have an opportunity now to actually prevent esophageal cancer."The screening takes about 90 seconds. It involves swallowing a small capsule attached to a thin catheter.Hauch describes the quick procedure intended to detect pre-cancerous abnormalities."They talked you through it. You basically swallowed a capsule of a sort or sponge kind of a thing that when they bring it back out, it collects cells," she said.
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