Cancer May Be Next Wave Of 9/11 Illnesses

Doctor Says Several World Trade Center Site Workers Have Developed Rare Blood Cell Cancers

(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."

Doctors had previously said it was too soon to know whether any cancers can be linked to trade center dust exposure, although Mount Sinai published research last year that said about 70 percent of the workers they screened had respiratory illnesses.

An article published Thursday with Herbert's interview in the New England Journal of Medicine said that while workers did inhale cancer-causing chemicals, "an associated increased risk for respiratory tract cancer and most other types of cancer will not be apparent for decades."

The researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Rochester suggested tracking diseases for at least two decades through a New York City-based health registry that plans to monitor residents' and workers' health for 20 years.

Herbert, who was not available for further comment Thursday, didn't say in her audiotaped interview how many blood cell cancer cases the Mount Sinai program was tracking. She said researchers are verifying all the cases that have been reported by members of the monitoring program.

An attorney representing thousands of workers and residents said that more than 100 of his clients have blood cell cancers. About eight have multiple myeloma, David Worby said. Most of his clients are in their 30s or 40s, and the youngest is 29, he said.

More than half of all cases of multiple myeloma, a plasma cell cancer that spreads throughout bone marrow, occur in people over 70, and about 1 percent of cases occur in people under 40, according to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation in Norwalk, Conn.

Herbert, referring to cancer as a possible third wave of disease, said the first was the chronic coughing and acute respiratory problems that workers got right after their post-Sept. 11 work.

Second, she said, are more serious chronic lung diseases such as sarcoidosis, which killed a New York woman who inhaled dust from the collapsing twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001. The city medical examiner last week added Felicia Dunn-Jones' 2002 death to the official list of Sept. 11 attack victims.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said of Herbert's remarks on blood cell cancers: "The city's own doctors don't — they will not say there's no possibility — but they don't at the moment see this as the great threat."

Said Worby: "It's not a great threat to the general public, but to people who are already sick and have these blood cell cancers and who gave up their lives ... it's a great threat to them because a lot of them are going to die."

[king77shaw]

it's asbestos - one of the main reasons the towers were demolished by controlled demolition on 9/11 - 1 billion dollars to remove the asbestos ... why pay a billion when you can make 7 billion in insurance thanks to the policy purchased 7 weeks before 9/11 ? Why wasn't new leaseholder Larry Silverstein questioned by the 9/11 commission ? seems odd doesn't it... scratch the surface people and it all seems very odd -

[bareemperor]

All this because the Carlyle Group wanted a few years of incredible profits for their CIA/defense friends...
When the final report comes, following the REAL 9/11 investigation, the traitors who sat on their hands will swing from the gallows, and the Bu$h name will be synonymous with CONNED...

[tuckerndfw]

Another 9/11/01 scam begins to take shape.

How many billions is this scam going to cost taxpayers?

[feelfree1]

Here is a very good film which summarizes many of the key problems with the official explanation of September 11, 2001. This film is only 21 minutes long, and well worth the time investment.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-5224963246223576086&q=%22third+stage%22

[toldyouso21]

Talk about your conspiracy theories and paranoia--how is this for a movie plot:

1. Power hungry president and co want to stay in power so they plot a fake terrorist attack.

2. Knowing how skeptical Americans have become and how another 9/11 moment is unlikely, they decide to use bioterrorism. But first they have to set it up

3. They start by having a fake American Al Qaeda threaten greater 9/11 like attacks on our soil, they do this so we will at least see a connection

4. After that speech, they have a person who pretends to be infected show how easy it is to breach our defenses. Before the elections of 2008, a series of germs are released in America, this is done and the connection to the TB cases are made.

5. It turns out the US Naval Accademy turned lawyer is really an officer in the military working undercover and this was all a scam. No TB, NO breach but a series of events made to look like one

6. The super bug hits, Bush, er I mean the President declares a national emergency, Martial law and suspends elections indefinitely.

Oh yeah, prior to all of this maybe on May 9, 2007, the Prez signs an order which gives him the right to declare martial law and pre empt every state's power in case of an emergency.

Well...what do you think? Would the story line work? Or is it too way out there?

[retmilspouse]

king77shaw,
When I scratch the surface the only odd thing I seem to see is you.

[retmilspouse]

tuckerndfw,
That's a little cold and heartless.

[tuckerndfw]

Well...what do you think? Would the story line work? Or is it too way out there?

Posted by toldyouso21 at 11:52 PM : May 31, 2007

It's on target other than number one.

George Bush does not want to be dictator. He wants to be in his Crawford mansion getting drunk, snorting coke and fellating his boyfriends.

Oil companies and international financiers want a dictatorship and need a mindless bozo to fill the slot of "dictator." George Bush just happens to be the mindless bozo they chose to fill that slot.

Other than that, it's on target.

[tuckerndfw]

tuckerndfw,
That's a little cold and heartless.

Posted by retmilspouse at 11:56 PM : May 31, 2007

My "sympathy" for the "victims" of 9/11/01 ended about the time many of the survivors became multi-millionaires.

And, it further eroded when the GOP used them as an excuse to slaughter tens (hundreds?) of thousands of innocent people, including over 3,000 US soldiers.

People who live in NYC do not care about their own health and safety, so why should anyone else? I've been to NYC and it's a toilet.

[mikealford3]

"The next wave", What about the Tidal Wave of cancer deaths already occuring in the U.S.? Every 2 days cancer kills as many Americans as died in the WTC attack (EVERY 2 DAYS). People talk about how horrible 9-11 was, and it was. However, since September 11, 2001 over 3,000,000 Americans have died as a result of cancer. Over 500,000 Americans die ever year as a result of cancer, yet it takes the few thousand affected by 9-11 to bring focus to the disease and that is upsetting.

[truthspeake1]

That's what one gets for doing their "patriotic duty"...and I guarantee you that each and every claim will be denied!

[king77shaw]

retmilspouse - try addressing the facts instead of attacking me personally: you can't - no one can without realizing 9/11 is not what we've been told -

1) why did WTC7 fall? WTC lease holder Larry Silverstein admitted to having the building "pulled" (slang for demolished) - only problem is that it takes weeks at best to prepare a building for demolition. Why did the 9/11 commission fail to even mention the collapse of WTC7-why isn%u2019t it shown on TV? OBVIOUS DEMOLITION!

2) how could the twin towers fall at free fall speeds if we are to believe the "pancake" theory? The buildings fell in 9 seconds! If floors were collapsing into the ones below them there would be slight delay before the lower floor gives. If it were a half a second at each floor that would still be nearly 50 seconds - huge steel beams were being ejected hundreds of feet HORIZONTALLY, concrete was pulverized into fine dust, SQUIBS (well-placed charges) are exploding outward up to 20 floors below the collapse wave. All characteristics of a controlled demolition not collapse.

Molten metal in the sub-basements 6 weeks after the "collapse" ? from kerosene (jet fuel) ? - let's be real.

[emhawks]

WE MUST NOT REST UNTIL WE FIND THE TRUTH OF 9/11; NOT BLINDLY ACCEPT THE "OFFICIAL VERSION" WE'VE BEEN TOLD.

AND WE MUST NOT REST UNTIL THE REAL PERPETRATORS HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.

I AM NOT A "CONSPIRACY THEORIST". I BELIEVE THE ONLY "CONSIRACY THEORY" IS THE OFFICIAL STORY WE'VE BEEN TOLD. THE TERM "CONSPIRACY THEORY" IS A USEFUL TOOL FOR ELIMINATING ARTICULATE DISSENT.

THE 9/11 INVESTIGATION SHOULD BE RE-OPENED. THERE ARE TOO MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS.

DO I THINK 9/11 WAS AN "INSIDE JOB"? YES, I DO. THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD SHOWS US THAT STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. THE MORE I RESEARCH/READ THE MORE CONVINCED I BECOME THAT THE REAL PERPETRATORS OF 9/11 ARE WITHIN THE BUSH/CHENEY ADM. & THE CIRLES OF THE ELITE, POWERFUL (AND WEALTHY) INDIVIDUALS WHO SURROUND THIS ADM.

AN EXCELLENT VIDEO ON THIS IS "OIL, SMOKE & MIRRORS" (JUST GOOGLE THIS & YOU CAN PULL IT UP). ANOTHER GOOD ONE IS "THE TRUTH & LIES OF 9/11" WITH MIKE RUPPERT. RUPPERT IS THE AUTHOR OF "CROSSING THE RUBICON", WHICH A LANDMARK BOOK ON 9/11. IT'S VERY WELL DOCUMENTED WITH HUNDREDS OF FOOTNOTES TO SUBSTANCIATE MR RUPPERT'S INFORMATION.

MR. RUPPERT WAS THE EDITOR OF FROM THE WILDERNESS.COM. HIS OFFICE WAS BURGLARIZED & HIS COMPUTERS DESTROYED ABOUT '05 OR '06. THERE WERE THREATS MADE ON HIS LIFE. HE HAS BEEN VERY SICK & IS NOW RECOVERING. THE WEBSITE IS STILL AVAIABLE ONLINE & ALL HIS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING HAS BEEN SAVED IN AN ARCHIVE CREATED @ THIS SITE.

[ralan40]

I'm not surprised by any of this. People at the EPA who cleared that site as safe should have criminal charges levied against them.
How could anyone even think that the rescue workers would not be exposed to toxic substances?
I think heads of government agencies that commit this type of blunder should be procecuted. Maybe these people won't want the cushy job if personal responsibility is on the line.

[jjreding-2009]

And this will increase the final death toll to tens of thousands. Why aren't we putting all of our military resources in Afghanistan from whence the attack came instead of in this illegal and immoral war in Iraq?