ReviewCA: a cancer journal for clinicians2022
Cancer risk among World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers: A review.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evolving Cancer Characteristics Among World Trade Center Survivors: An Updated Analysis from the WTC Environmental Health Center.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Effect of World Trade Center Health Program on mortality among 9/11 responders.Annals of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Differences in MicroRNA Expression in Firefighters Responding to a Train Derailment and Fire in East Palestine, Ohio.Epigenomes · 2026Article
- Lung Cancer Incidence After September 11, 2001, Among World Trade Center Responders.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- 8-OXO-Cordycepin Is Not a Suitable Substrate for Adenosine Deaminase-Preliminary Experimental and Theoretical Studies.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Design of a randomized tobacco cessation trial among FDNY World Trade Center responders in a lung cancer screening program.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- World Trade Center (WTC) Exposures and Cardiometabolic Risk Among WTC Health Program General Responders.American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Exposure-Informed Care Following Toxic Environmental Exposures: A Lifestyle Medicine Approach.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Review
- DNA Methylation as a Molecular Mechanism of Carcinogenesis in World Trade Center Dust Exposure: Insights from a Structured Literature Review.Biomolecules · 2024Review
- World Trade Center Exposure, DNA Methylation Changes, and Cancer: A Review of Current Evidence.Epigenomes · 2023Review
- Effects of trauma history on cancer-related screening, diagnosis, and treatment.The Lancet. Oncology · 2023Review
- Mutagenicity of the organic fraction of World Trade Center dust.Environmental and molecular mutagenesis · 2023Article
- Effects of the Hazardous Area Response Team Training Program on the Knowledge and Confidence in Operational Skills of Prehospital Emergency Medical Personnel in Thailand: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Open access emergency medicine : OAEM · 2023Article
- The World Trade Center Health Program: Cancer screening and cancer care best practices.Archives of environmental & occupational health · 2023Article
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8 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Twenty years after the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, the association between exposures present at the World Trade Center (WTC) site and the risk of several specific types of cancer has been reported among rescue and recovery workers. The authors' objective was to conduct an updated review of these data. Most studies have found elevated rates of both prostate and thyroid cancers compared with rates in the general population, and some have reported statistically significant differences for the rates of all cancers as well. Studies including a larger combined cohort of WTC-exposed rescue and recovery workers from 3 main cohorts have since replicated findings for these cancers, with additional years of follow-up. Among this combined cohort, although a lower-than-expected standardized incidence ratio for all cancers was observed, WTC exposure was also related to an increased risk of cutaneous melanoma and tonsil cancer. Importantly, another study found that WTC-exposed rescue and recovery workers who are enrolled in the federally funded medical monitoring and treatment program experienced improved survival post-cancer diagnosis compared with New York state patients with cancer. On the basis of these combined cohort studies, the full effect of WTC exposure on cancer risk is becoming clearer. Consequently, the authors believe that surveillance of those with WTC exposure should be continued, and in-depth analysis of epidemiologic, molecular, and clinical aspects of specific cancers in these workers should be pursued.
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