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A recent Rutgers study found a correlation between first responders from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and diagnoses of head and neck cancers. 

Judith Graber, an assistant research professor at the Rutgers Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) and the lead author of the study, gave her insight about the findings to The Daily Targum.

Graber and her colleagues looked at a number of patients in a case series that was also published. They noticed that some of the patients were police or in the military. They were also younger than the average cases of head and neck cancer patients. It also seemed as though most of them had responded to the attacks on 9/11 itself.

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