Officer's Death Shows Struggle to Define Link Between 9/11 Dust and Disease
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/nyregion/31cop.html?_r=1
"When George Wong, a retired police officer, died last week after a battle with gastric cancer, his family assumed, as Mr. Wong had, that the cause of his disease was the many hours he had put in directing traffic around ground zero in 2001.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/nyregion/31cop.html?_r=1
"When George Wong, a retired police officer, died last week after a battle with gastric cancer, his family assumed, as Mr. Wong had, that the cause of his disease was the many hours he had put in directing traffic around ground zero in 2001.
And when a doctor wrote on Mr. Wong's death certificate that toxic 9/11 particles had contributed to his death, the family believed that was the end of the matter.
But they were stunned at the phone call they received during his wake: it was the New York City medical examiner's office, saying it needed his body, right away. The office wanted to look into the assertion that Mr. Wong, 48, had died from exposures to toxic substances around ground zero."
