Thats a total of 2,509 cases. The center has screened more than 37,000 World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers since 2002. It will continue to monitor those workers and volunteers for any new cases. Some reports suggest the number of cancer cases in this group has doubled since last year. While that may be mathematically true, cancer experts caution that we cant draw any significant conclusions from the increase. For every decade of life, if you look at a population ... cancer rates go up the older you are, said Dr. Otis Brawley, the chief medical and scientific officer and executive vice president of the American Cancer Society. Looking at an increase from one year to the next is a nonscientific way of making an assessment that is incredibly biased to find a link between the activity and the cancer. Many have cancers after 9/11 To be scientifically accurate, Brawley said someone would have to look at all the cancer records for the people in the 9/11 group and compare them to a group that had the same age makeup, same gender, and other demographic data. There would also have to be a significant portion of firefighters in that sample, because as a profession they tend to have higher cancer rates than the general population, Brawley said.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 14:16:10 +0000
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