The Exceptional Case of Fallujah

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Re: The Exceptional Case of Fallujah

Either make a specific claim, or stop talking rot. You’re linking to an article about asbestos impact on 9/11 workers. Did you bother to read it?

Researchers say a small number of young law enforcement officers who participated in the World Trade Center rescue and cleanup operation have developed an immune system cancer.

The numbers are tiny, and experts don’t know whether there is any link between the illnesses and toxins released during the disaster.

The researchers looked at 28,252 emergency responders who spent time amid ground zero dust and found eight cases of multiple myeloma.

Those findings were no surprise. Multiple myeloma is the second most common hematological cancer in the U.S. after non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Normally, researchers would expect to find about seven cases in a group as large as the one examined in the study.

To date, no study, including the one published Monday, has established a link between that dust and cancer, said Lorna Thorpe, a deputy commissioner and epidemiologist at New York City’s health department.

**In these cases, the cancers were diagnosed in as little as three to four years after the attacks, suggesting that something else caused the disease.
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So 9/11 workers, some of them exposed to hundreds of hours of working in dust, were possibly at a higher risk to a specific sort of cancer. Possibly, because the cancer they did find was at more or less the same rate as that of the general population.

Now please go and read the rates cited in the article, ranging from 4 to 38 fold increases in rates of cancer. Cancer not limited to lung cancer btw, which is what asbestos is associated with. That is ofcourse if the only issue was cancer. ITS NOT. Birth defects are not addressed by the asbestos theory.