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9/11 first responders join death toll from attack
More than 72k firefighters, police, medicals, utility workers and more have signed up to be monitored from their exposure at the World Trade Center site.
More than 8,000 of those registered have already been diagnosed with cancer.
17 years later, and the tragedy still continues.
More than 72k firefighters, police, medicals, utility workers and more have signed up to be monitored from their exposure at the World Trade Center site.
More than 8,000 of those registered have already been diagnosed with cancer.
“Some of the toxic exposures … the effects of those are now due,” he said.
Asbestos-related cancers, notably lung cancer, can take 20 years for symptoms to show. “It’s time for them to start appearing,” Crane told NBC News.
“I am concerned about rising cancer rates.”
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Many of the cancers are treatable, including the most common skin cancers related to the chemical exposures. For that reason, not too many cancer deaths can be directly blamed on 9/11.
But other cancers will be deadly. Earlier this year, a team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York reported that 9/11 firefighters had an elevated risk of multiple myeloma, among other cancers.
17 years later, and the tragedy still continues.
