The New York Post reports:
A group of 9/11 responders has contracted blood cancers at an unusually young age, and top doctors suspect the disease was triggered by an unprecedented “synergistic mix” of toxins at the World Trade Center site. The WTC Medical Monitoring Program is now studying a group of Ground Zero workers, including cops, construction workers and volunteers, suffering from cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma.
“The kind of thing that worries us is that we have a handful of cases of multiple myeloma in very young individuals … a condition that almost always presents late in life,” said Dr. Robin Herbert, co-director of the program at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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For the first time publicly, Herbert said WTC doctors are “worried about the possibility of synergistic effect.” She said 9/11 workers were exposed to a mix of cancer-causing agents plus an “unbelievable range of other chemicals.” “One of the things that surprised me, and many of my colleagues, is how often we’re seeing the so-called zebras, the conditions that we never actually saw in our lives before,” Herbert said.
