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And third is female breast cancer, with 4,830 cases.\n\t\t\n\n\t\t\n\n\nOther common cancers reported include melanoma of the skin, lymphoma, thyroid, kidney, lung, bladder and leukemia.\n\n\n\nSome cases of rarer cancers have also been reported, with nearly 600 cases of neuroendocrine cancers, which are uncommon tumors found typically in the lungs, pancreas, bowel or adrenal glands.\n\n\n\nBreast cancer among men has also surged, Michael Barasch, a lawyer whose firm represents 50,000 cases involving 9/11 illnesses, told The Post.\n\n\n\n\u201cOnly one and a half percent of all breast cancer [cases] are male. We should see about five men with male breast cancer \u2013 my law firm alone represents 100,\u201d he said.\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMost read in The US Sun\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\n\n\nBarasch added his firm \u201closes two clients to cancer every day.\u201d\n\n\n\nThe lawyer, whose office is located just three blocks from the Twin Towers, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018 and is still under \u201cactive surveillance\u201d of the disease.\n\n\n\nBarasch said he has also lost members of his staff, including a 49-year-old paralegal who died from kidney cancer in 2020 and a 47-year-old secretary who died of breast cancer in 2014.\n\n\n\nNew data revealed that first responders and people who worked or lived near the Twin Towers are 123 times more likely to have thyroid cancer, and 119 times more likely to have melanoma.\n\n\n\n\nDust covers people and the streets near the World Trade Center after the attacks Credit: AP:Associated Press\n\n\nThose in the area, including people who lived close, went to school nearby, worked in one of the many neighboring buildings, or rushed to look for survivors, were exposed to toxic dust and smoke.\n\n\n\n\u201cThe dust cloud engulfed highly populated areas of southern Manhattan and Brooklyn and entered offices, schools, and residential buildings,\u201d the CDC said.\n\n\n\n\u201cPeople were exposed both indoors and outside.\u201d\n\n\n\nAfter the towers fell, people were worried about breathing in asbestos, fiberglass, human tissue and pulverized bones, and the smell of smoke lingered for months as underground fires raged on for around 100 days.\n\n\n\nThe cloud of toxic dust also contained carcinogenic compounds, such as mercury, lead and cadmium from burning plastics, office materials and jet fuel. \n\n\n\nOn Tuesday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released more than 170,000 documents that indicate previous city leaders knew about the toxins.\n\n\n\n\u201cThese are documents that show what the city knew about the toxic air around Ground Zero, when they knew it, and how they acted to limit liability,\u201d the mayor said.\n\n\n\nThe documents were kept from the public for over two decades, and appear to support the notion that New Yorkers were told they could return to Ground Zero before it was safe.\n\n\nOther health conditions have been reported in survivors and first responders, including asthma, chronic respiratory disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder Credit: 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund\n\nFirefighter Gerard McGibbon, of Engine 283 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, seen in the rubble praying after the World Trade Center buildings collapsed Credit: (?) Copyright 2001 by Getty Images\n\n\nThere have been other health conditions tied to survivors and first responders, including gastroesophageal reflux disease, asthma, major depressive disorder, chronic respiratory disorder and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.\n\n\n\nDr Michael Crane, the medical director of the World Trade Center Health Program Clinical Center of Excellence at Mount Sinai, said the program is on high alert for all types of cancers.\n\n\n\n\u201cSince we know all cancers are increased [among members] every time we do a monitoring visit, our eyes are looking for all cancers,\u201d he told The Post.\n\n\n\n\u201cOne we\u2019re enormously concerned about is melanoma,\u201d he explained, adding it is \u201cmuch more deadly\u201d than the common basal skin cancer.\n\n\n\n\u201cThen, you have prostate cancer. We do believe that it has an increased frequency because of the exposure.\u201d\n\n\n\nCrane said that the true cancer count for those affected by 9/11 could be higher than what\u2019s recorded as thousands of people never enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Program.\n\n\n\nAround 400,000 people were \u201csignificantly exposed\u201d to the toxic air at Ground Zero, he said.\n\n\n\nFrom people in \u201cthe apartment buildings with the windows open \u2026 and kids crawling around on the floor,\u201d there are people who might not realize they were exposed to dangerous chemicals, he said.\n\n\nNew York City firefighters seen with face masks as they prepared to join other first responders at Ground Zero Credit: Reuters\n\nRubble and smoke seen in Lower Manhattan after the towers fell Credit: AFP\n\n\n\u201cThose children are now in their 20s and remain largely unstudied,\u201d Crane said.\n\n\n\n\u201cWhat\u2019s going to happen with them?\u201d\n\n\n\nThe brother of detective Luis Alvarez, who died years after 9/11 from a related illness, told The Sun in 2021 that \u201cpeople will continue to get sick\u201d in the years after the tragedy.\n\n\n\nLuis died in 2019 at the age of 53, just over two weeks after his activism led to the passing of a bill in Congress extending the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund permanently. \n\n\n\nHe was one of the many first responders who went to Ground Zero and took part in rescue missions after the attacks, and was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer 15 years after 9/11.\n\n\n\nPhil Alvarez, a former police officer and the Director of Outreach and Education for VCF told The Sun that it was difficult watching his little brother go from a strong, bomb squad detective to a \u201cbag of bones\u201d after undergoing chemo sessions, procedures and surgeries. \n\n\n\n\u201cHuman beings are not supposed to breathe in the toxins that were down on Ground Zero,\u201d Phil said.\n\n\n\n\u201cIf you took a pinch of it, and put it in a bottle and put a stopper on that bottle, you gotta put the skull and the crossbones on it because it\u2019s poison.\n\n\n\n\u201cThe people in Manhattan were covered in it. 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