In the largest cancer study of firefighters ever conducted, research published in this week's 9/11 Special Issue of The Lancet found that New York City firefighters exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster site were at least 19 percent more likely to develop cancer in the seven years following the disaster as their non-exposed colleagues and up to 10 percent more likely to develop cancer than a similar sample from the general population.
David Prezant, M.D., discusses her new research on increased cancer risk for firefighters who worked at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 attacks.Dr.Prezant is professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, an attending physician in the pulmonary medicine division at Montefiore, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, and chief medical officer of the Fire Department of the City of New York.
The study evaluated the health of 9,853 WTC-exposed and non-exposed firefighters over the seven years following 9/11.The senior author was David Prezant, M.D., professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, an attending physician in the pulmonary medicine division at Montefiore, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, and chief medical officer of the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY).His co-authors were from Einstein, Montefiore and FDNY.
The terrorist attacks on the WTC on September 11, 2001 created an unprecedented environmental disaster in the New York City area.Many first responders, including about 12,500 FDNY firefighters, were exposed to potentially hazardous aerosolized dust consisting of pulverized cement, gla*s fibers, asbestos, lead, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, and polychlorinated furans and dioxins produced as combustion byproducts from the collapsed and burning buildings.They were also exposed to potentially toxic fumesinitially from burning jet fuel and, during the 10-month recovery effort, from diesel smoke emitted by heavy equipment.Dr.Prezant has previously published several studies regarding the lung health of WTC-exposed first responders.The Lancet study was the first effort to a*sess the incidence of cancer among an entire WTC-exposed cohortв
David Prezant, M.D., discusses her new research on increased cancer risk for firefighters who worked at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 attacks.Dr.Prezant is professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, an attending physician in the pulmonary medicine division at Montefiore, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, and chief medical officer of the Fire Department of the City of New York.
The study evaluated the health of 9,853 WTC-exposed and non-exposed firefighters over the seven years following 9/11.The senior author was David Prezant, M.D., professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, an attending physician in the pulmonary medicine division at Montefiore, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, and chief medical officer of the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY).His co-authors were from Einstein, Montefiore and FDNY.
The terrorist attacks on the WTC on September 11, 2001 created an unprecedented environmental disaster in the New York City area.Many first responders, including about 12,500 FDNY firefighters, were exposed to potentially hazardous aerosolized dust consisting of pulverized cement, gla*s fibers, asbestos, lead, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, and polychlorinated furans and dioxins produced as combustion byproducts from the collapsed and burning buildings.They were also exposed to potentially toxic fumesinitially from burning jet fuel and, during the 10-month recovery effort, from diesel smoke emitted by heavy equipment.Dr.Prezant has previously published several studies regarding the lung health of WTC-exposed first responders.The Lancet study was the first effort to a*sess the incidence of cancer among an entire WTC-exposed cohortв
