Firefighters who worked at Ground Zero are 19% more likely to have cancer than those who were not exposed to the site, a new study finds.
Although firefighters, police officers and other Ground Zero workers have long pointed to anecdotal evidence and said that exposure to toxic dust at the site has undeniably caused cancer, researchers say most solid tumors take decades to grow, so such a link could take up to 40 years to prove.
The new study, published Thursday in the journal Lancet, is being described as the first meaningful research on the matter.
Study Finds Higher Rate of Cancer in Ground Zero Firefighters
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Original content Bob DeMarco, Look Beyond the Obvious
