9/11 cancer study won’t settle debate over risks
The most comprehensive study of potential World Trade Center-related cancers raises more questions than it answers and won't end a debate over whether the attacks were really a cause.
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9/11 responders may have higher risk of some cancers
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Rescue and recovery workers who provided aid after the World Trade Center attacks may have an increased risk of certain types of cancer, including prostate and thyroid cancers, a new study suggests. However, that finding was based on a relatively small number of cancers. And neither relief workers nor people who lived, worked or went to school near the towers had a higher-than-average chance of being diagnosed with all cancers combined up to seven years later. …
Race-to-top exercise teaches stresses of 9/11
Students run up stairs Tuesday during a BOCES criminal justice class learning activity at the Horseheads campus. The students' mission was to run up the stairs to simulate first-responders' race up the World Trade Center towers 11 years ago. / JASON …
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NORAD holds hijacking drill with U.S., Russia and Canadian military
| The training exercise was led by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the same organization that two years before the 9/11 attacks conducted drills to simulate hijacked airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. Another NORAD … See all stories on this topic » |
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US wants 9/11 health program to include 50 cancers
People who were stricken with cancer after being exposed to the toxic ash that exploded over Manhattan when the World Trade Center collapsed would qualify for free treatment of the disease and potentially hefty compensation payments under a rule proposed Friday by federal health officials.
Cancer sufferers to get World Trade Center aid
People with cancer who were caught in the aftermath of the World Trade Center collapse during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York should be eligible for aid, authorities proposed Friday.
Tough choice looms on 9/11 health lawsuits (AP)
AP – More than 1,600 people who filed lawsuits claiming that their health was ruined by dust and smoke from the collapsed World Trade Center must decide by Jan. 2 whether to keep fighting in court, or drop the litigation and apply for benefits from a government compensation fund.
Looking back at 9/11 a meaningful exercise for Herald Journal staff
For adult Americans and Cache Valley residents, Sept. 11, 2001, seems like yesterday — the horror of seeing a second airliner crash into New York's World Trade Center and knowing that instant that the first collision was no accident, the chilling …
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WTC studies find no big jump in cancer, deaths (AP)
AP – Two major medical studies have failed to find significant increases in deaths or cancer among people exposed to dust from the World Trade Center.
No link between 9/11 exposure and cancer: US (AFP)
AFP – A US government review of scientific studies has shown no proof that exposure to the dust and rubble from the World Trade Center after the attacks of September 11, 2001 caused cancer.