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On 9/11/2001 and over the following months, thousands of first responders and other rescue/recovery workers were exposed to potentially carcinogenic substances at the Twin Towers site. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Charles Hall, Ph.D., a four-year, $1.8 million grant to conduct the largest long-term study to date of these exposed individuals. This study will combine follow-up data from all three cohorts of World Trade Center (WTC) rescue/recovery workers, update estimates of the effect of WTC exposure on cancer incidence, study in detail the latency period between exposure and cancer occurrence, and study the effect of WTC exposure and other factors on the survival of these workers following their cancer diagnosis. Dr. Hall is professor of epidemiology & population health. (1U01Oh011315-01)
Posted on: Thursday, December 01, 2016