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The September 11 cancer wave ahead
- About half of the 54,000 survivors enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program now have cancer, according to CDC data, roughly triple the number diagnosed five years ago.
- Unlike first responders, many survivors were exposed by returning to contaminated apartments in Lower Manhattan after the 2001 attacks; mesothelioma has a 25 to 50-year latency period now emerging.
- New documents released last week show EPA scientist Cate Jenkins warned of significant risks in a December 2001 memo, contradicting EPA Administrator Christine Whitman's public assurances that air in New York and Washington was safe.
- Jacqueline Moline reports 38 mesothelioma cases among nearly 155,000 World Trade Center Health Program enrollees, an incidence rate three times higher than the general population, which Dr. Alan Arslan of NYU Langone Medical Center calls a sentinel cancer.
- Survivor enrollment outpaced first responders in 2024 and 2025, with roughly twice as many joining; Dr. Leigh Wilson of the World Trade Center Environmental Center reports about 120 new patients monthly, though many survivors remain unaware they qualify for care.
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Over 400k exposed to cancer causing chemicals at 9/11
After the towers fell, a toxic cloud swallowed Lower Manhattan. According to a report from CNN, that dust was no ordinary debris: pulverized concrete, jet-fuel byproducts and vaporized metals such as cadmium, lead and mercury coated streets, apartments and lungs. The CDC estimates as many as 400,000 people were exposed—first responders and also residents, students […]
After the collapse came the dust. It spread through Lower Manhattan following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, which turned people into ghosts who were walking hard to a safe place.
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