Downtown Manhattan Cleaners and 9/11 Breast Cancer
August 30, 2018
By Turley, Hansen & Rosasco on 9/11 Cancers
You are a cleaner in a downtown Manhattan office building on 9/11. In 2018, you were just diagnosed with 9/11 breast cancer. Your exact diagnosis is invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), the most common type of breast cancer. Almost 80% of all breast cancers are invasive ductal carcinomas. You are only 51 and your family has no history of cancer. You are very scared for you and your family. After discussion with your oncologist and surgeon, you choose to have a lumpectomy surgery followed by radiation. Thankfully, surgery and radiation goes well and you are cleared to return to work. … READ ARTICLE