AGONY OF 9/11 TOXIC TOTS

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"AGONY OF 9/11 TOXIC TOTS
By SUSAN EDELMAN

EXCLUSIVE


Babies born to women living near the World Trade Center who were pregnant on 9/11 suffered more genetic damage than other city infants - and could be at higher risk for cancer later in life, New York researchers say.

About half the babies born to 329 nonsmoking women living close to Ground Zero had DNA with significant levels of combustion-related toxins, "which have the potential to damage development and increase risk of cancer," a lead investigator told The Post.

"The chemical pollutants crossed the placenta and bound to the DNA, leaving their fingerprint of exposure," said Dr. Frederica Perera, director of Columbia University's Center for Children's Environmental Health. . . "

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DOWNTOWN MOMS FEAR FOR THEIR 'CANCEROUS' KIDS

By ANGELA MONTEFINISE
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March 12, 2006 -- Dinella Ascenso agonized as her little boy, born two weeks after 9/11, repeatedly became sick with a hacking cough during his first two years of life.
"It wasn't normal," said the 30-year-old chef instructor, who lives four blocks from Ground Zero.

"I totally accredit it to Sept. 11," she added. "They cannot possibly tell us the air we were breathing was safe. Think of what was in there . . . All you smelled for months was dead skin, like a finger getting burned by a match. How can that be safe?"