More than 20 years after the tragedy, thousands of people suffer from chronic health problems
Summary
More than 20 years after the attacks of September 11, thousands of survivors and rescuers face chronic health problems, in particular tumors, due to the exposure to the toxins released in the tragedy.
More than 20 years after the attacks of 11 September in New York, thousands of people still suffer from chronic health problems. This is what a study published by the World Trade Center Health Program, a federal institution that provides medical monitoring for people affected by the tragedy.
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According to the data, published in The New York TimesAbout 48,500 rescuers and survivors have already been diagnosed a little cancer by March of this year. The term “Cancer of 11 September” is a reference to the emergence of diseases following the exposure to the toxins issued by the collapse of the structures, including the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island.
The number represents a 143% increase in diagnoses in recent years. The main ones are:
- Skin;
- Prostate;
- Breast;
- Melanoma;
- Lymphoma;
- Leukemia;
- Thyroid;
- Kidney;
- Lung;
- Vescia.
According to the clinical oncologist and president of the Brazilian Society of Clinical Oncology (SBOC) Angélica Nogueira Rodrigues, the dust to which the affected people of various degrees were exposed had had carcinogenic cancers to tumors. Among these, asbestos (asbestos), polycyclic hydrocarbons, metals and silica, among others with compatible lanquers.
Until this week, 3,767 members of the program who died, about 2,388 have had cancer. The total exceeds 2,977 victims of the attack. According to US experts, the expectation is that even more cases will appear with the arrival of advanced age.
Similar cases
The details of the experts that the diagnoses related to 11 September are not unique. In medicine, there are other examples in which survivors for environmental contamination, in industrial, nuclear and urban catastrophes have discovered a sort of illness years later.
“The main examples are Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in which the population has been exposed to high -dose acute ionizing radiation, with an increase in acute lethality, but also an increase in solid, thyroid, breast, lung, intestine, liver. Also comparable episode of losses of radiotherapy material. Earth.
Source: Terra
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