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(23,295 posts) Tue Sep 10, 2013, 03:01 PM Sep 2013

1,140 people, including first responders, have WTC-related cancer [View all]

Source: Yahoo News

More than 1,000 people who have lived or worked near ground zero, including first responders, have been diagnosed with a cancer related to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, health officials say.

According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1,140 people have been certified with a WTC-related cancer. And that number is expected to grow, the Daily News reports.

As many as 65,000 people, including first responders, became sick from 9/11 exposure, according to the Centers for Disease Control. A Mount Sinai Medical Center study cited by the Daily News found a 15 percent higher cancer rate among first responders than among people who were not exposed to the toxic air.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/wtc-911-first-responders-cancer-143807168.html

I remember bush and cronies getting EPA to doctor the report that said there were toxins in the air. "It's safe", we were told.

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1,140 people, including first responders, have WTC-related cancer [View all] louis-t Sep 2013 OP

Indeed, they lied about the air quality. n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #1

Damn. Iliyah Sep 2013 #2

Anybody with a minimum of respiratory knowledge knew it was a toxic mix. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #3

And so the victims are to be blamed for believing the government's official statement? Indi Guy Sep 2013 #9

No and I did not infer that either. When I saw those people there WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #27

A friend of mine, a heavy equipment operator who volunteered a couple months time to help. . . Journeyman Sep 2013 #4

I read somewhere that breathing the air, then, was the equivalent of breathing Drano. Mnemosyne Sep 2013 #5

The Towers were a mess inside Hydra Sep 2013 #7

Do you remember when the media reported that an "organized" crime gang was Mnemosyne Sep 2013 #30

*Shakes head* Hydra Sep 2013 #31

I was ill at the time and had little to do but watch HLN and cartoons. I remember Mnemosyne Sep 2013 #32

I've heard it suggested . . . markpkessinger Sep 2013 #6

I wonder if someday we will read a story about the rise in cancers throughout the Pacific NW, jtuck004 Sep 2013 #8

Bush's EPA head is now a paid nuclear energy shill: Christine Todd Whitman bananas Sep 2013 #10

Well at least she's consistent. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #28

This message was self-deleted by its author jeff47 Sep 2013 #22

A few days after 9/11 madaboutharry Sep 2013 #11

Not surprised leftynyc Sep 2013 #12

200 ACRES worth of office equipment just in the two towers... AtheistCrusader Sep 2013 #16

I have heard . . . Brigid Sep 2013 #13

Don't forget to thank W.R. Grace for their vermiculite asbestos too. AtheistCrusader Sep 2013 #14

You can hear Whitman lying KewlKat Sep 2013 #15

You gotta wonder how people like that live with themselves. Doremus Sep 2013 #18

i used to work around shit like that and we had to use all kinds of protection. madrchsod Sep 2013 #17

Also if they made workers on the site all wear elaborate protection what would all the people PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #19

good point! madrchsod Sep 2013 #26

These health problems could have been prevented greatlaurel Sep 2013 #20

+1000. WCLinolVir Sep 2013 #29

Of course they lied - the almighty dollar was at stake. WestSeattle2 Sep 2013 #21

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Sep 2013 #23

Remember Michael Moore's 2007 film, "Sicko?" Rhiannon12866 Sep 2013 #24

They're only Americans, if they were Middle Easterners this would be real news Snake Plissken Sep 2013 #25