World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers: Cancer Increases Are Beginning to Emerge

Menée à l'aide de données 2002-2015, cette étude analyse l'incidence des cancers auprès d'un échantillon de 57 402 professionnels ayant participé aux opérations de sauvetage du World Trade Center (3 611 cas)

Résumé en anglais

In the weeks after the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center attacks, air and dust sampling in and around Ground Zero identified numerous agents classified as established or suspected carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer or the National Toxicology Program (1). The estimated 95 000 rescue workers (2) were exposed to dusts and fibers from building materials as well as diesel exhaust and particulates from more than 100 000 truck trips used in the cleanup. The dust contained metals, asbestos, glass fibers, polycyclic organic hydrocarbons, phthalate esters, furans, polychlorinated biphenyls, organochlorine pesticides, dioxins, chlordane, and other hydrocarbons (3,4). Additionally, fires ignited by jet fuel spread to organic material, heating and diesel oil, and fuel from automobiles left in subterranean parking structures (5), burning for 99 days after the attacks. Cleanup of the rubble ended 9 months later in May 2002.