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Written by: Dr. Jesse A. Stoff Edited by: Carmen Regallo-Dewitt ( Awarenessforacure.org ) Amongst other things in life, I am a New York State police surgeon. As such, the boys in blue and FDNY are near and dear to my heart and I always go out of my way to help these patients when they come to my office seeking care. It saddens and frustrates me to hear stories about their experiences from ground zero on that fateful day and the days and weeks following.  The first one being that respiratory protective gear was purposely NOT issued because "it posed a potential health risk as a visual impediment - increasing the risk of falling and hurting themselves". This is a great source of frustration to both me and my patients.  Another heartbreaking story that I find to be the culprit of these illnesses was when officials announced that "the air in lower Manhattan was safe to breathe" days after the incident. The fact that these brave men and women were purposely exposed to t...

Courtesy of FEMA / Andrea Booher- photographer Written by: Dr. Jesse A. Stoff Edited by: Carmen Regallo-Dewitt ( Awarenessforacure.org ) There are epidemiological studies that give us the relative incidents and risk based upon sex, age, socioeconomic class, location and where people live. There are risks of getting all kinds of different cancers. For example, Long Island is known as a cancer cluster for breast cancer and some other cancers, but still there's a known risk per thousand population of getting any one of these diseases. When you look at the population that have been exposed to the 9/11 fallout dust, you'll find that the incidents per capita has recently skyrocketed for a wide range of both common and uncommon diseases (like lung cancer, colon cancer, stomach cancer, kidney cancer, liver cancer, cholangiocarcinomas, pancreatic cancer, etc.) For people who have been exposed to the fallout (as lethal as radioactive fallout) and the dust from the 911 catastrophe, we...

Written by: Dr. Jesse A. Stoff  |  Edited by: Carmen Regallo-Dewitt (staff writer for Awarenessforacure.org ) Recently in the news, they're talking a lot about asbestos and asbestos-related cancers due to 9/11 exposure because when the Twin Towers collapsed, all the asbestos that was in there for insulation was aerosolized. And when you breathe that stuff in, in small particles that have been micronized from the explosion and compression phenomena, when those particles get lodged in the lungs, the body doesn't have a good way to excrete it. Asbestosis is a well known disease going back decades related to the asbestos industry and the use of asbestos to insulate everything from boilers in residential houses and boilers and heating pipes in commercial settings for many decades. And it's been known that people that worked with this material or breathed in or mined this material or removed this material or at an increased risk for asbestosis and asbestos related lung cancers. ...

The first presentation by the Cancer Resource  Alliance  was hosted at the  Lotos Club of NYC - an historical landmark founded by writers, journalists and academics in 1870 May 10, 2018- NYC; Dr. Steven Cohen, Chair of the Science & Technology Committee of the LOTOS CLUB hosted the 2018 speaker series with Dr. Robert Bard's opening presentation on Early Detection & Prevention by NYCRA (New York Cancer Resource Alliance) and AwarenessforaCure.org . The group elected Dr. Bard to launch this theme because of his expanded knowledge in today's modern diagnostic  technologies and non-invasive applications  including the 4D Doppler ultrasound technology - much of which has been driven by European medical influence for the cancer treatment community. Dr. Bard is an internationally recognized leading expert in the use of this process for the screening, scanning and pre/post procedural monitoring of Breast, Prostate & Skin Cancers.  He is also known for h...