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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-11 08:02 PM
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9/11 Firefighters Have Higher Cancer Risk: Study
Source: Reuters

9/11 firefighters have higher cancer risk: study

By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO | Thu Sep 1, 2011 8:52pm EDT

(Reuters) - Male firefighters who were exposed to toxic dust and smoke from the 9/11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center have a 19 percent higher risk of getting cancer of all kinds than colleagues who were not exposed, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

The study is the first to look at cancer rates among the all of the exposed firefighters, and the findings may help pave the way for federal health benefits for rescue workers now suffering from cancer nearly a decade after the attacks.

"This study clearly shows World Trade Center exposure in these firefighters led to an increase in cancer," said Dr. David Prezant of the Fire Department of the City of New York, whose study was published in The Lancet medical journal.

Studies so far have not found an increased risk of lung cancer, which takes many years to develop, and this study was no exception, finding no increased risk of lung cancer for exposed firefighters versus those not exposed.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/02/us-cancer-firefighters-idUSTRE7806GS20110902
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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 04:14 AM
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1. World Trade Centre rescuers at higher risk of cancer, Lancet reveals
Source: The Guardian

The destruction of the World Trade Centre has taken a heavy toll on the health of those who tried to rescue people from the burning buildings, those who took part in the clean-up, and those who lived near the site, research shows.

Firefighters who endangered their lives trying to save people have paid a long-term price: a 19%higher risk of cancer as a result of exposure to toxic fumes, according to a study published in a special Lancet series to mark the 10th anniversary of the atrocity. Other research in the series reveals the scale of mental and physical damage suffered by rescuers and witnesses.

Dr David Prezant, chief medical officer of New York City fire department, and colleagues studied the firefighters, together with others from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, and Montefiore Medical Centre, New York.

In the years following the disaster, said Prezant, the firefighters began to ask about cancer. The World Trade Centre fire was like no other they had encountered.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/02/world-trade-centre-rescuers-health-risk
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 04:38 AM
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2. Not surprising
I was down in the area a few weeks after 9/11 - the fires were still smoldering and the air still smelled like burned electrical wires. These people should have every dime of medical care paid for. We owe it to them.
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adigal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 05:37 AM
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3. My husband was a NYC firefighter, was on the "Pile" for a year
before he developed asthma and was put out on disability. So far, he is OK with the cancer, knock wood. The dogs who were down there lived normal life spans, so we are hopeful.
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JoeyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 04:03 PM
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4. Ouch.
Edited on Fri Sep-02-11 04:04 PM by JoeyT
And they're being compared to a group that's already high risk. :(
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-11 04:15 PM
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5. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.
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