World Trade Center-exposed NYC firefighters face increased cancer risk, study finds
Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 21:30
in Psychology & Sociology
In the largest cancer study of firefighters ever conducted, researchers have found that New York City firefighters exposed to the Sept. 11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster site were at least 19 percent more likely to develop cancer in the seven years following the disaster as their non-exposed colleagues and up to 10 percent more likely to develop cancer than a similar sample from the general population.