1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2017 . 2. Patient registry for firefighter cancer incidence (a) In general The Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shall develop and maintain, directly or through a grant or cooperative agreement, a voluntary registry of firefighters (referred to in this section as the Firefighter Registry ) to collect relevant history and occupational information of such firefighters that can be linked to available cancer registry data collected by existing State cancer registries. (b) Use of Firefighter Registry The Firefighter Registry shall be used for the following purposes: (1) To establish and improve collection infrastructure and activities related to the nationwide monitoring of the incidence of cancer among firefighters. (2) To collect, consolidate, store, and make publicly available epidemiological information related to cancer incidence and trends among firefighters. (c) Relevant data (1) In general In carrying out the voluntary data collection for purposes of inclusion under the Firefighter Registry, the Secretary should seek to include the following information: (A) Identifiable information from a representative sample size, as determined by the Secretary under subsection (d)(2)(A), of volunteer, paid-on-call, and career firefighters, independent of cancer status or diagnosis. (B) With respect to individual risk factors and work history of firefighters, available information on— (i) basic demographic information, including the age of the firefighter involved; (ii) a listing of status of the firefighter as either volunteer, paid-on-call, or career firefighter; (iii) the number of years on the job and a detailing of additional employment experience that was either performed concurrently alongside firefighting service, before, or anytime thereafter