Tag: World Trade Center dust

Thyroid Cancer Three Times Higher Among World Trade Center Responders

August 5, 2019August 5, 2019Environment

The incidence of thyroid cancer among first responders who volunteered or were employed as firefighters, rescue personnel and cleanup workers at Ground Zero in New York on or after September 11, 2001, is three times higher than that in the general population. This difference has…

Researchers find link between World Trade Center dust and prostate cancer

June 20, 2019June 20, 2019Environment

World Trade Center (WTC) responders with prostate cancer showed signs that exposure to dust from the World Trade Center site had activated chronic inflammation in their prostates, which may have contributed to their cancer, according to a study by Mount Sinai researchers in Molecular Cancer…