Younger victims sought for 9/11 health benefits program

Those 21 or younger at time of attacks can get testing, financial help

A 20-year-old who had just begun her junior year at NYU at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Nadia Vizueta traveled through lower Manhattan in the weeks after the towers collapsed to conduct interviews with first responders and survivors. Vizueta said she spent a "significant amount of time" in lower Manhattan after the attacks, but when, two decades later she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, a rare, aggressive and chemotherapy-resistant disease, she had no idea that she could qualify for benefits under the World Trade Center Health Program.  

It wasn't until another woman in her cancer support group spoke about the program and recommended that she try to apply that Vizueta realized the WTCHP could help her.