STUDY: 9/11 First Responders Have Higher Rates Of Cancer Than The General Population: Responders to the September 11 attacks have a 15 percent higher rate of cancer than the general population, according to a new study published in the Environmental Health Perspectives journal. The study examined data from 20,984 first responders in the seven years after the 9/11 attack, a short time period that the study’s authors say [...]/p