Tag Archives: thyroid cancer
Cancer rates in the NYPD have risen about 50 percent since Sept. 11, 2001
Joe Zadroga, Congressman Peter King, and Michael Barasch According to a long-term study published this month in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, NYPD Chief Surgeon Dr. Eli Kleinman, along with scientists at Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, found a roughly 50-percent increase in all cancers after Sept. 11, with […]
WTC Responder? Get a Thyroid Check
According to information released by the New York Police Department (NYPD) in September, incidence rates of two types of cancer have soared among first responders in recent years. Although increased rates of cancer and other diseases among those exposed to toxic pollutants on and after September 11 is no surprise, Dr. Eli Kleinman, chief surgeon […]
