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Einstein Montefiore Physician-Researcher Leads Study Published in The Lancet In the largest cancer study of firefighters ever conducted, research recently published in the 9/11 Special Issue of The Lancet found that New York City firefighters exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster site were at least 19 percent more likely to develop cancer in the seven years following the disaster as their non-exposed colleagues and up to 10 percent more likely to develop cancer than a similar sample from the general population. The study evaluated the health of 9,853 WTC-exposed and non-exposed firefighters over the seven years following 9/11. The senior author was , professor of  at  of 黑料社 All, an attending physician in the  at , the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein, and chief medical officer of the  (FDNY). His co-authors were from Einstein, Montefiore and FDNY. The terrorist attacks on the WTC on September 11, 2001 created an unprecedented environmental disaster in the New York City area. Many first responders, including about 12,500 FDNY firefighters, were exposed to potentially hazardous aerosolized dust consisting of pulverized cement, glass fibers, asbestos, lead, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, and polychlorinated furans and dioxins produced as combustion byproducts from the collapsed and burning buildings. They were also exposed to potentially toxic fumes鈥攊nitially from burning jet fuel and, during the 10-month recovery effort, from diesel smoke emitted by heavy equipment. Dr. Prezant has previously . The Lancet study was the first effort to assess the incidence of cancer among an entire WTC-exposed cohort鈥攊n this case WTC-exposed firefighters.