2518/35000 comes out to something like 7%. what is the rate of cancer occurrences in the general population?
That’s 7% over 12 years, among an age group increasingly prone to cancer as time progresses, AND (safe to assume) is more likely to smoke.
General population is about 0.5% _new_cases_per_year_, and includes youth/children unlikely to develop cancer at all. 0.5% over 12 years is 6%, plus aggravating factors ... I’ll dare say that the 9/11 responders & cleanup are proving to have slightly _lower_ than average cancer rates.