For thousands of people, the 9/11 attacks will stay with them for far longer than they had imagined.
More than a thousand people, all of whom have lived or worked on or near ground zero, the site were the World Trade Center once stood, have been diagnosed with cancer.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health have reported that 1,140 people have been diagnosed with WTC-related cancers. And the numbers won't stop there, they said, citing the cases recorded as those who have been funded by government medical programs, meaning that there may be hundreds more who have either refused treatment, or are being treated by private doctors.
The air at ground zero had been awash with carcinogens, exposing the people who worked there, even those who responded first to the calls for help.
As many as 6,500 people became sick from the 9/11 radiation exposure, with a fifteen percent higher cancer rate among the fire fighters and first responders among others. Many of them have said that although cancer was at the back of their mind once they had known what they were getting into, they went ahead anyway.
The world held its breath as news footage of two planes crashing into the Twin Towers in New York City caused the buildings to crumble to the ground, claiming 3,000 lives in the process. Terrorist group Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks, Osama Bin Laden emerging as mastermind. Bin Laden was found and killed last year in a covert operation that launched an attack on his home compound in a Pakistani suburb.
People who also responded to the attacks on Pentagon have also signed on to the multi-billion dollar fund for people with WTC-related attacks, with 91 people (miniscule, compared to the number of inflicted at New York) diagnosed with cancer from exposure.
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