Uterine Cancer Maybe Added To 9/11 Health issues

9/11, one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the world, continues to haunt Americans. While many continue to reel from PTSD, the attack might be responsible for uterine cancer among many Americans. 

After the World Trade Center was turned to debris on September 11, 2001, the emergency respondents and the survivors were compelled to breathe toxic dust. After more than twenty years of the incidence, people having uterine cancer who were present at the incidence are showing some connections, as reported by the Washington Post. 

According to the World Trade Center Health Program, a government program that monitors WTC-related health conditions, uterine cancer may be added to the list of health conditions caused due to the attack on the WTC. 

The WTC Health Program already covers nearly every type of cancer. Uterine cancer was never added to the list. The officials have proposed to add uterine cancer to the list, and it is in the final stages. 

According to the National Cancer Institute, Uterine cancer accounts for about 3.4 percent of new cancer cases in the US. Uterine cancer will be responsible for about 12,550 deaths in 2022, says the Institute. 

One of the causes of endometrial and uterine cancers is endocrine-disrupting substances found at Ground Zero. But, the data on how many people were affected on 9/11 is insufficient. 

The scientific advisors and the WTC Health Program’s administrators say that there are enough pieces of evidence that support dust from the destroyed buildings and other WTC chemicals have relation to uterine cancer. Their argument has been strongly supported by many patients, physicians, and more than a dozen Congress members. 

According to Iris Udasin, Rutgers University’s WTC Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program, who has treated several first respondents and survivors for cancer, the WTC chemicals are one of the biggest causes of cancer developed in the first respondents and the survivors. Udasin has already authored several studies on this. 

The proposed changes are open for public comment through June 26.