NYPD Detective Amadeo Pulley, left, was among the first World Trade Center responders to get cancer as a result to exposure to toxins at Ground Zero in 2001. Practice Nurse Navigator Tina Engel and Dr. Leigh Wilson are pictured with him at the North Shore Hospital /LIJ WTC Health Center in Queens, N.Y.
The “C” word has been every World Trade Center responder’s nightmare — and for good reason.