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Fire Fighting Foam (AFFF's)
This foam is used to extinguish fires, because it reduces the fire and coats fuels, avoiding contact with oxygen.
Firefighters, military personnel, and commercial airports are the ones who use this chemical, which is related to cancer that firefighters most frequently get.
Science:
Environmental Working Group and Indiana University: Conducted a review of 26 fluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, and found that all display at least one characteristic of known human carcinogens.
Lundin et al. (7) found suggestive positive trends in internal exposure-response analyses for diabetes, stroke, prostate cancer, and pancreatic cancer
UC Berkeley and Harvard Studies: Fire-fighting foam containing highly fluorinated chemicals is contaminating drinking water supplies around many of the nation’s military bases, airports, and industrial sites
In conclusion, the authors found evidence of positive exposure-response trends for malignant and nonmalignant renal disease.
Client eligibility:
•PC must have been a civilian or military firefighter or exposed to or used firefighting foam on the job or training
• If NOT a firefighter, PC must have a minimum of ten exposure events to the firefighting foam
•PC must not be a minor
•PC must have been exposed to firefighting foam after 1960
•PC must have been diagnosed with one of the following: kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, testicular cancer, prostate cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, bladder cancer, thyroid cancer, liver cancer, or breast cancer.
•PC must have developed one of the qualifying injuries at least 6 months after the first exposure to the product
•PC must not be currently represented by an attorney
Damages that are qualified for claims:
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Kidney cancer
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Prostate cancer
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Thyroid cancer
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Pancreatic cancer
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Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
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Liver cancer
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Testicular cancer
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Bladder cancer
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Breast cancer