CDC Plans $50M Study of 9/11's Child Survivors
The $50 million project will track 9/11-exposed youth for long-term cancer, heart and reproductive risks that earlier studies largely missed.
- The CDC announced last month it is seeking researchers to establish the World Trade Center Youth Research Coordinating Center, aiming to identify and track a Youth Research Cohort exposed to the 9/11 attacks.
- When the World Trade Center towers fell on September 11, 2001, roughly 25,000 children were living or attending school nearby, yet very few enrolled in government-funded health studies that focused on adult first responders.
- Scientists lack data on chronic illnesses, including cancers and cardiovascular diseases, that may emerge as exposed children reach their 30s and early 40s, with current knowledge limited to small studies.
- Dr. Joan Reibman, founder of the World Trade Center Environmental Health Center, stated, "These people are spread across the United States right now," noting recruitment will require significant community work.
- Research into the children of 9/11 may shed light on mitigation measures for future disasters. Dr. Leigh Wilson, medical director of the World Trade Center Environmental Health Center, stated, "I would love to prevent every and any adverse effect in these children.
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For the children of those killed on 9/11, 25 years later the loss is still very personal
The young people whose lives were irrevocably changed on 9/11 want their peers and those born after 2001 to understand that 9/11 was personal, not just the stuff of history textbooks — and its impact is still very much present in their lives.
A week after the attacks on the WTC, aerial image shows the damage left at the site where the Twin Towers were located in New York City via AFP/Archive Almost 3,000 people died on the morning of September 11, 2001. Twenty-five years later, the number of survivors and rescuers with cancer attributed to the attack is nineteen times higher: 57,044 certifications, according to the World Trade Center Health Program bulletin published in August 2026, …
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25 years after the attack on the World Trade Center, there is still uncertainty about the health consequences for Manhattan's children.
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