The World Trade Center (WTC) disaster exposed people to, among other things, carcinogens, leading to high cancer rates. Twenty-three years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, disease numbers are still high
Breast cancer not only among women, those coming from New York are shocking data. The reason? The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 took the lives of thousands of people and made get sick as many.
If for many the intense exposure to toxic dust and fumes was fatal, in fact, for many others it led to diseases for the rest of the years: to the respiratory tract, such as chronic rhinosinusitis and asthma, to the digestive tract and tumors among the most frequent pathologies. Tumors, already exactly like that, and among these there are also men who have known the breast cancer.
According to new investigations, men who live or work near Ground Zero have “much more likely to get breast canceror”. So not only the rescuers of the time, the firefighters, the police and the doctors.
The data
The Centers for Diseases Control has released new data revealing that 91 men of the 98,590 men in the World Trade Center Health Program were diagnosed with breast cancer.
That rate is as much as 90 times the national average based on federal health data, says attorney Michael Barasch, who represents 54 male breast cancer patients seen in the WTCHP. These numbers could be the tip of the iceberg. Breast cancer is truly exploding among men.
The findings are worrying for a very simple reason: breast cancer in men is very rare, with around 1 in 100,000 males diagnosed with the potentially deadly disease.
Cancers after September 11th, not just breast cancer
According to the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program, almost 15 thousand people, including rescuers and survivors, have developed cancer and almost 800 have died to date. According to a 2013 study, there was a 15% growth in all types of cancer among first responders in the period from 2001 to 2008, with a higher frequency among those who had been most exposed. And again, a 2016 work indicated a growth in cases of 11% among rescuers and 8% among survivors.
