Cancer Cases Explode Among WTC Health Patients, Underscores Ongoing Crisis 25 Years After 9/11

NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sep 8, 2026–

Twenty-five years after the World Trade Center terror attack on September 11, 2001, physicians and patients gathered at Northwell’s Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Medical Center to commemorate the grim anniversary and to sound the alarm to an ongoing health crisis. The past is prologue for a slow-motion health disaster as cancer cases have exploded among some of the approximately 145,000 people currently enrolled in the World Trade Center (WTC) Health Program, which provides free medical monitoring.

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