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  • WTCHP Counts Nearly 10K People With 9/11-Related Cancers

    9/11 Injuries • Victim Compensation Fund • WTC Health Program

    WTCHP Counts Nearly 10K People With 9/11-Related Cancers

    By Michael Barasch

    The 17th anniversary of September 11, 2001 is approaching. It is truly heartbreaking that The World Trade Center Health Program has counted 9,795 first responders, downtown workers, residents, students and others with 9/11-related cancers. And the number of cancer cases is rapidly rising. Cancer doesn’t have a deadline, so why should the 9/11 Victim Compensation […]

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  • 9/11 Injuries

    Michael Barasch Interviewed About Teachers and Students Sickened by 9/11 Toxins

    By Michael Barasch
    On July 7, attorney Michael Barasch joined iHeartRadio host Shelli Sonstein on Sonstein Sessions to discuss a little-known aspect of the post-9/11 health crisis: the long-term effects on teachers and students in lower Manhattan in 2001 and 2002. Also on hand were Michal Novemsky and Ronald Valenzuela, students at the time who have since developed 9/11-related cancers, and United Federation of Teachers executive Ellie Engler, also a 9/11 cancer survivor.
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