Lung Cancer Characteristics in the World Trade Center Environmental Health Center

Health and environmental consequences of the world trade center disaster.

The attack on the World Trade Center (WTC) created an acute environmental disaster of enormous magnitude. This study characterizes the environmental exposures resulting from destruction of the WTC and assesses their effects on health. Methods include ambient air sampling; analyses of outdoor and indoor settled dust; high-altitude imaging and modeling of the atmospheric plume; inhalation studies...

Inferno at the World Trade Center, NY

9-11: The fateful date As in the morning hours of September 11, 2001 I was anxiously watching on TV the dramatic events taking place in Ne w York City, and saw the two World Trade Center towers engulfed in immense flames brought about by terrorists who deliberately crashed two passenger jets into them, my training in Structural Engineering instantly elicited in me visions of doom, and a feeling...

Why Did the World Trade Center Collapse ?

Each tower of the World Trade Center was designed to withstand, as a whole, the horizontal impact of a large commercial aircraft. Why, then, did total collapse occur? Zden ek P. Ba zant, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science at Northwestern University, and Yong Zhou, a graduate research assistant at Northwestern, suggest that the collapse was the dynamic conseque...

The legacy of World Trade Center dust.

Association between World Trade Center exposure and excess cancer risk.

CONTEXT The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, resulted in the release of known and suspected carcinogens into the environment. There is public concern that exposures may have resulted in increased cancers. OBJECTIVE To evaluate cancer incidence among persons enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Registry. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Observational study of 55,778 New York St...