Number of men with breast cancer near NYC’s Ground Zero skyrockets — now 90 times national average
NY Post
The number of men who have developed breast cancer while working or living around Ground Zero has skyrocketed, The Post has learned.
The federal Centers for Diseases Control reports that 91 men in the World Trade Center Health Program have been diagnosed with breast cancer to date, six times the number The Post first reported in 2018 — and 90 times higher than the national average, according to the lawyer for some of the victims.
Breast cancer is a rarity for men — roughly 1 out of 100,000 males get the potentially killer disease.
It is so unusual that many men don’t even know they can get breast cancer, as opposed to women who get tested regularly.
But 91 out of 98,590 men in the WTCHP have been diagnosed with it, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control.
That rate is a staggering 90 times the national average based on federal health data, said lawyer Michael Barasch, who represents 54 male breast-cancer patients enrolled in the WTCHP.
