September 11th first responders have a higher cancer rate than people who did not breathe in dust from the World Trade Center, according to a new report.
Researchers at Mount Sinai’s World Trade Center Health Program examined data from nearly 21,000 patients.
Between 2001 and 2008, 575 cancers were diagnosed in 552 people; 15 percent higher than patients in the general population.
Thyroid, prostate and blood cancers were among the highest.
Participants of the study were mostly non-smoking white men around 38 years old at the time of the attacks.
The findings will be published online in the medical journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
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