If these numbers are accurate, it's hard to argue against a connection.
Neighbor is FDNY. He now has asthma, didn't pre-9/11. His wife says many still have the odd cough that developed after working at the pile.
Numbers cited may not accurately reflect true problems; she says many firefighters are not going to dept drs because they don't want these things on their records yet.
I dunno, the numbers don't seem all that off (I am not saying there isn't a link, just not saying based on this limited story and what the families lawyer claims it has to remain suspect)
50,000 workers, <300 have developed cancer. The 35 cases they are trying to tie to Benzine from jet fuel have to be at least suspect... it was 2 planes.. while fires raged and smoldered for days... the Jet Fuel was burned off before the towers fell.
But anyway about .5% of the 50,000 workers have developed some sort of cancer in the 4.5 years since the event.. is this beyond the norm? I don't know. Some cancers are rare, but cancer itself is not that uncommon.
Any doctors or researchers know the general incident rate for cancer over a 5 year span of the general population? What would the number of cases be applied to a 50,000 random sampling?
Just be glad the VA isn't doing the arguing then. To them Persian Gulf War Syndrome was just a myth while people died.