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Eyes on 9/11 responders' cancer data

Marvin Bethea poses for photograph at his childhood

Photo credit: Joel Cairo | Marvin Bethea poses for photograph at his childhood home in Greenlawn, New York on August 17, 2005.

A decade after the terror attacks on the World Trade Center, the fear of cancer stalks first responders who worked in the toxic, debris-filled air.

"We're waiting for the shoe to fall and hoping it doesn't," said Dr. Philip Landrigan, director of the World Trade Center Monitoring and Treatment Program at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan, which coordinates the seven clinical centers...

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