[Stop the Poisons] BLOOD CANCERS/WTC

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At 09:08 AM 6/3/07, you wrote:

>Doctor sees blood cancers in WTC program

>Posted by: " Fernwoods " Fernwoods fernwoods7

>Sat Jun 2, 2007 11:33 am (PST)

>Doctor sees blood cancers in WTC program

>_http://news.http://newhttp://news.http:/_

>(http://news./s/ap/attacks_health)

>

>By AMY WESTFELDT, Associated Press Writer Thu May 31, 9:23 PM ET

>

>NEW YORK - The head of the largest program tracking the health of World

>Trade Center site workers said several have developed rare blood cell

>cancers,

>raising fears that cancer will become a " third wave " of illnesses among those

>exposed to toxic dust after Sept. 11.

>

>Dr. Robin Herbert, co-director of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring

>Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center, said researchers who have screened

>20,000 of the estimated 40,000 ground zero workers are " most concerned " about

>lymphatic and blood cancer cases.

>

> " We're worried about a third wave, which is the possibility of cancer down

>the road, " Herbert said in an audiotaped interview posted on the New England

>Journal of Medicine's Web site.

>

> " The kind of thing that worries us is that we know we have a handful of

>cases of multiple myeloma in very young individuals, and multiple myeloma

>is a

>condition that ... almost always presents later in life, " she added. " That's

>the kind of odd, unusual and troubling finding that we're seeing already. "

>

>The city's health commissioner said Thursday there was no evidence of a link

>to cancers and trade center dust exposure.

>

> " While we are concerned about the possibility " of cancer cases in people

>exposed to trade center dust, cancer cases haven't increased, Commissioner

>Thomas Frieden said. State data show no changes in leukemia and myeloma

>cases in

>New York City as of 2004, the latest data available, he said.

>

>Mount Sinai published research last year that said about 70 percent of the

>workers they screened had developed various respiratory illnesses.

>

>An article published Thursday with Herbert's interview in the New England

>Journal of Medicine said that while workers did inhale cancer-causing

>chemicals, " an associated increased risk for respiratory tract cancer and

>most other

>types of cancer will not be apparent for decades. "

>The researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the University of

>Rochester suggested tracking diseases for at least two decades through a

>New York

>City-based health registry that plans to monitor residents' and workers'

>health

>for 20 years.

>

>Herbert, who was not available for further comment Thursday, didn't say in

>her audiotaped interview how many blood cell cancer cases the Mount Sinai

>program was tracking. She said researchers are verifying all the cases

>that have

>been reported by members of the monitoring program.

>

>An attorney representing thousands of workers and residents said that more

>than 100 of his clients have blood cell cancers. About eight have multiple

>myeloma, David Worby said. Most of his clients are in their 30s or 40s,

>and the

>youngest is 29, he said.

>

>More than half of all cases of multiple myeloma, a plasma cell cancer that

>spreads throughout bone marrow, occur in people over 70, and about 1 percent

>of cases occur in people under 40, according to the Multiple Myeloma Research

>Foundation in Norwalk, Conn.

>

>Herbert, referring to cancer as a possible third wave of disease, said the

>first was the chronic coughing and acute respiratory problems that workers

>got

>right after their post-Sept. 11 work.

>Second, she said, are more serious chronic lung diseases such as

>sarcoidosis, which killed a New York woman who inhaled dust from the

>collapsing twin

>towers on Sept. 11, 2001. The city medical examiner last week added Felicia

>Dunn-Jones' 2002 death to the official list of Sept. 11 attack victims.

>

>Mayor Michael Bloomberg said of Herbert's remarks on blood cell cancers:

> " The city's own doctors don't — they will not say there's no they don't at

>the moment see this as the great threat. "

>

>Said Worby: " It's not a great threat to the general public, but to people

>who are already sick and have these blood cell cancers and who gave up their

>lives ... it's a great threat to them because a lot of them are going to die. "

>___

>Associated Press writer Sara Kugler contributed to this report.

>___

>On the Net:

>New England Journal of Medicine: _http://content.http://c_

>(http://content.nejm.org/)

>WTC Medical Monitoring Program: _http://www.wtcexamshttp_

>(http://www.wtcexams.org/)

 

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