A Phoenix firefighter who struggled with the city over a 2017 law expanding the list of cancers presumed covered by workers' compensation died Sunday after a year-long battle with the disease.

State lawmakers tried to expand protections for firefighters two years ago, but the law does not seem to be working as expected.

In 2017, the Legislature passed a bill to expand the list of cancers that are legally presumed to be a result of firefighters’ workplace conditions. HB2161 sailed out of both chambers with nearly unanimous support from lawmakers who sought to protect firefighters across Arizona from the financial burden of diseases such as leukemia, melanoma and testicular cancer, among others.

Sen. John McCain has chosen to discontinue medical treatment for brain cancer, the Arizona senator's family said.

Arizona companies have no duty to protect family members from exposure to toxic materials their employees bring home on their work clothes, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Friday.

A pair of bills to increase workers’ compensation coverage for firefighters who contract diseases in the line of duty easily passed the Arizona House of Representatives on February 21 after a few last-minute amendments.

Firefighter Dave Rehnke wants the Legislature to enact two bills that would expand the list of presumptive cancers eligible for worker’s compensation for firefighters.

University of California President Janet Napolitano, a former U.S. Homeland Security secretary, has been undergoing treatment for cancer and was hospitalized Tuesday with complications, the school system said.

We’ve made tremendous progress in the way we diagnose and treat cancer. But to leverage this progress, Arizona legislators should take advantage of these opportunities to pass evidence-based laws and support policies that are proven to save lives and money.

For more than 10 years, professor Stephen Johnston and a team of researchers at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have been developing a cancer vaccine aimed at preventing all types of cancer.