Rare Blood Cancer Hits 9/11 Responders

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=3232554&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Rare Blood Cancer Hits 9/11 Responders
Doctor Tracking WTC Illnesses Fears Cancer Could Be Next Plague Among Those Exposed to Dust

By AMY WESTFELDT Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK May 31, 2007 (AP)

The head of the largest program tracking the health of World Trade Center site workers said several have developed rare blood cell cancers, raising fears that cancer will become a "third wave" of illnesses among those exposed to toxic dust after Sept. 11.

Dr. Robin Herbert, co-director of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center, said researchers who have screened 20,000 of the estimated 40,000 ground zero workers are "most concerned" about lymphatic and blood cancer cases.

"We're worried about a third wave, which is the possibility of cancer down the road," Herbert said in an audiotaped interview posted on the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site.

"The kind of thing that worries us is that we know we have a handful of cases of multiple myeloma in very young individuals, and multiple myeloma is a condition that ... almost always presents later in life," she added. "That's the kind of odd, unusual and troubling finding that we're seeing already."


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[tiptoe]

1. More "public service" acclaim due Ghouliani: "Thank you, mayor. You're a good & wise man!"

:sarcasm:

[ck4829]

2. K&R

[babylonsister]

3. .

[seemslikeadream]

4. just another LIHOP

[Straight Shooter]

5. Multiple myeloma ...

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[Decruiter]

6. I just want to cry, I want to help and do not know how.

My S/O and I knew that day the air was toxic. Why and how did we know? Just a couple of days before I was talking with a friend about needing to get rid of a TV gone bad. I was telling him we needed to take it out to the dumpster at our apartment complex. My friend was selling for a company selling to the government surge protectors and other stuff to keep things running in case of an "emergency" situation.

My friend told me not to throw my TV in the dumpster it was against the law, too much toxic stuff in the TV. Scary stuff. I did not toss the TV into the dumpster, a couple of days later, 9/11. The day Christie Todd-Whitman came out and said the air is safe, I called BS.

I knew and I did nothing. In my silence I feel complicit. In our silence we are all complicit.

I a so very sorry.

New Orleans, gone, New York, gone. "they" are doing pretty well on that depopulation thing, aren't "they"?