1,140 WTC 9/11 responders have cancer

[Locutus]

— and doctors say that number will grow

‘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.



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

 

[SLM]

Talk about pouring salt on a wound. In the end I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers end up effectively meeting or exceeding the numbers that lost their lives on that day. Hopefully many will be able to fight it effectively, but you have to know that many won't.

 

[#juan]

Talk about pouring salt on a wound. In the end I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers end up effectively meeting or exceeding the numbers that lost their lives on that day. Hopefully many will be able to fight it effectively, but you have to know that many won't.

I would worry about all those thousands of people who had to walk through the clouds of smoke and dust that came from the WTC buildings when they fell down. It wouldn't surprise me if, heaven forbid, these people began to show symptoms as well.