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<blockquote data-quote="911" data-source="post: 977649" data-attributes="member: 11221">I was under the impression that mesothelioma was the more common effect from asbestos inhilation, but you're right Higgs, lung cancer is nearly twice as common as mesothelioma, though the latter is almost exclusively asbestos related.[img=399x240]<a href="https://www.asbestos.com/wp-content/uploads/xewg-bargraph.jpg.pagespeed.ic.rIv0rAQqYj.jpg[/img]" target="_blank">https://www.asbestos.com/wp-content/uploads/xewg-bargraph.jpg.pagespeed.ic.rIv0rAQqYj.jpg[/img]</a><a href="https://www.asbestos.com/cancer/" target="_blank">https://www.asbestos.com/cancer/</a>Still, the reason we know that asbestos was not the main culprit is that the overall ratio of lung cancer to mesothelioma in Ground Zero victims is much smaller than the 2 to 1 you would expect to get from asbestos exposure alone. As well, forensic evidence confirms the presence of nanoparticles in the lungs of 9/11 cancer victims:<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854726/" target="_blank">Lung Disease in World Trade Center Responders Exposed to Dust and Smoke: Carbon Nanotubes Found in the Lungs of World Trade Center Patients and Dust Samples</a>There's also a lot of thyroid cancers in the Ground Zero population. Those cancers are closely linked to the presence of radioactive materials, whose presence was observed in and around south Manhattan after 9/11. <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-15/one-man-asks-why-was-tritium-found-911-ground-zero" target="_blank">http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-15/one-man-asks-why-was-tritium-found-911-ground-zero</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="911, post: 977649, member: 11221"] I was under the impression that mesothelioma was the more common effect from asbestos inhilation, but you're right Higgs, lung cancer is nearly twice as common as mesothelioma, though the latter is almost exclusively asbestos related. [img=399x240][URL]https://www.asbestos.com/wp-content/uploads/xewg-bargraph.jpg.pagespeed.ic.rIv0rAQqYj.jpg[/img][/URL] [URL]https://www.asbestos.com/cancer/[/URL] Still, the reason we know that asbestos was not the main culprit is that the overall ratio of lung cancer to mesothelioma in Ground Zero victims is much smaller than the 2 to 1 you would expect to get from asbestos exposure alone. As well, forensic evidence confirms the presence of nanoparticles in the lungs of 9/11 cancer victims: [url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854726/]Lung Disease in World Trade Center Responders Exposed to Dust and Smoke: Carbon Nanotubes Found in the Lungs of World Trade Center Patients and Dust Samples[/url] There's also a lot of thyroid cancers in the Ground Zero population. Those cancers are closely linked to the presence of radioactive materials, whose presence was observed in and around south Manhattan after 9/11. [URL]http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-15/one-man-asks-why-was-tritium-found-911-ground-zero[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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