Modest elevations in cancer rates post-exposure to the World Trade Center (WTC) site have been reported in all three cohorts of rescue/recovery workers. The overarching goal of this proposal is to improve understanding of the association between WTC exposure and cancer risk. We will: 1) Compare cancer rates in WTC-exposed NYC firefighters to rates in non-WTC-exposed firefighters; 2) develop a new exposure measure based on work records and model cancer incidence rates as a function of both time of first arrival at the WTC site and the new duration measure; and, 3) estimate the future cancer burden of WTC-exposed firefighters.
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Moir W, Zeig-Owens R, Daniels R, et al. 2016. Post-9/11 cancer incidence in World Trade Center-exposed New York City firefighters as compared to a pooled cohort of firefighters from San Francisco, Chicago and Philadelphia (9/11/2001–2009). American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 59(9):722–30.
Singh A, Zeig-Owens R, Moir W, et al. 2018. Estimation of Future Cancer Burden Among Rescue and Recovery Workers Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster. JAMA Oncol. 4(6):828–831.
