1,140 WTC 9/11 responders have cancer — and doctors say that number will grow

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‘Sadly enough, I am here just two months, and I have identified a dozen new cancer cases, and I have another 25 patients whose diagnostic test results are pending,’ says Tina Engel, an oncology nurse at North Shore Hospital’s World Trade Center clinic in Queens, NY.

The “C” word has been every World Trade Center responder’s nightmare — and for good reason.
Cancer has become a reality for more than 1,000 men and women who sacrificed their health at Ground Zero — and the number is expected to grow.


“You get a lump in your throat when you first have to tell your wife,” said NYPD Detective Amadeo Pulley, 47, who was diagnosed with kidney cancer in May. “But I told my family and two kids I’m gonna be fine. We will get through this.”
As New York and the nation approach the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attack, a Mount Sinai Medical Center study found a 15% higher cancer rate among 9/11 responders than among people not exposed to the Ground Zero toxins.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/1-140-wtc-9-11-responders-cancer-article-1.1449499

[Graybeard]

1. The number of fluorescent light bulbs alone.

Has anyone ever calculated how many fluorescent light bulbs were in the two WTC towers? 110 floors each and thousands of bulbs on each of those floors?

If we accidentally break one bulb we hold our breath
not to breathe in the dust.
.

[HockeyMom]

2. Not just First Responders

but also people who lived and worked in the area. They had to breathe the same air. Yet, everyone was told that the air was safe, to go home, and clean up themselves. One couple didn't believe that and hired a Hazmat team to clean. A local NY TV station showed what they found in the apartment. Just what could be seen with luminol spraying was, well, horrific. That was in additional to all the contaminates found in the apartment.

I lived about 40 miles away and the greenish fog got to us a few days later. It burned your nose and throat. I can only imagine what is was like in the area around Ground Zero. Safe? I don't think so.

[Reiyuki]

3. EPA lies about Toxic air after 9/11

A 9/11 conspiracy theory turned out to be true