9/11 and Lymphoma Links?

Submitted by Angie Fri 02/20/2009

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As if being involved in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centers wasn't horrific enough, it's now appearing as if people present at the WTC on that world-changing day have higher than normal rates of lymphatic and blood cancers.

While New York city's health commissioner has said there is no evidence linking dust exposure to cancer, the Medical Monitoring Program reports a "handful of cases of multiple myeloma in very young individuals." They add, "multiple myeloma is a condition that ... almost aways presents later in life."

However, because the disease may take years to develop in some individuals, proof of a correlation most likely won't emerge for decades. This is all in addition to the confirmed respiratory illnesses found in 70% of the nearly 40,000 Ground Zero workers.

This is interesting. On 9/11,

Submitted by PSU83 on Mon, 08/10/2009 - 11:00.

This is interesting. On 9/11, I was on the street, 4 blocks from the WTC, when it collapsed. Despite running as fast as I could, I could not help but be inundated by the dust cloud. At the time I was 40 years old. 5 years later I was diagnosed with Stage IV NHL. We had no family history, I don't work around chemicals, I don't smoke, basically no apparent risk factors. Fortunately, after being successfully treated with CHOP R, I am healthy today. At the time, several family and friends asked if there was a correlation between the events of 9/11 and my NHL. Nothing conclusively proved a link.

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