Marcy Borders 'The Dust Lady' of 9/11 dies of stomach cancer
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Marcy Borders 'The Dust Lady' of 9/11 dies of stomach cancer
An American woman whose traumatised, dust-covered face summed up the horrors of the September 11 attacks has died of stomach cancer at the age of 42.
Marcy Borders, known as "The Dust Lady" thanks to the photograph taken in the immediate aftermath, became one of the most recognisable survivors. She had started work at Bank of America a month before the attack, and was working on the 81st floor of World Trade Centre when the first plane hit.
She managed to make it down to the ground level, and was walking away when the second plane struck the tower, leaving her covered from head to foot in thick grey dust.
In the years that followed the mother of two fell into a spiral of drink, drugs and depression, which saw her rack up huge debts and have her children taken into care.
"I just couldn’t cope," she told The Telegraph in 2011, to mark the 10-year anniversary of the attacks. "The alcohol made me numb, the drugs got me high. Every time I saw an airplane, I thought there would be another attack. I could not get that day out of my mind."
But a decade on, she was finally getting back into the working world and helping with a candidate's local campaign for mayor when, in August 2014, she was diagnosed with stomach cancer. I'm saying to myself: 'Did this thing ignite cancer cells in me?'" she said. "I definitely believe it because I haven't had any illnesses. I don't have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes."
In the years since 9/11, many hundreds of people caught up in the attacks have been diagnosed with cancer. Figures from July 2014 showed that more than 2,500 police officers, firefighters, ambulance staff and sanitation workers reported they had cancer in 2013 – twice as many as said they had the disease 12 months earlier.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/september-11-attacks/11824581/Marcy-Borders-The-Dust-Lady-of-911-dies-of-stomach-cancer.html
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Interesting.
The late Donna Summer was also convinced that she got cancer because of 9/11.
The late Donna Summer was also convinced that she got cancer because of 9/11.
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Re: Marcy Borders 'The Dust Lady' of 9/11 dies of stomach cancer
Raggamuffin wrote:Interesting.
The late Donna Summer was also convinced that she got cancer because of 9/11.
Sad that after all this time 9/11 is claiming still yet more victims
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Raggamuffin wrote:Interesting.
The late Donna Summer was also convinced that she got cancer because of 9/11.
Hadn't heard that before Raggs. I didn't know she was there.
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Until I read that lots of people died from cancer, I was going to suggest she may have for stomach cancer from years of drinking alcohol.
Whatever the case, it's a very sad end to a life that was ruined by 9/11.
Whatever the case, it's a very sad end to a life that was ruined by 9/11.
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