Report: Number Of Ground Zero Cancer Cases Skyrocketing

[hrmjustin]

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There has been a dramatic increase in the number of 9/11 rescuers and responders with cancer in the past year, according to a published report.

The New York Post says that Mount Sinai Hospital’s World Trade Center Health Program reported 1,140 cancer cases last year. Now the number is up to more than 2,500.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/07/27/report-number-of-ground-zero-cancer-cases-skyrocketing/

[In_The_Wind]

1. Lost a good friend to cancer. He helped as many as he could for days at Ground Zero.

Rest in peace Steve.

[hrmjustin]

2. I am so sorry to hear that. It is so sad that people who wanted to helpare paying the price for it.

[In_The_Wind]

3. He was a loving husband and good father to his large family.

[hrmjustin]

4. May he rest in peace. I lost 5 friends in tower 1.

[rocktivity]

5. I moved away from downtown Jersey City

-- directly across the Hudson river from the World Trade Center Towers -- the weekend BEFORE 9/11.

When I contacted my former landlord a month or two later, she said things has pretty much returned to normal -- "except for the smell."

So I can't help but wonder what my health would be like now if I'd still been there.


rocktivity

[hrmjustin]

6. Wow, that must have been a bit spooky for you.

I was down there days after looking for friends and I will never forget that smell.