i got elm if a zeem that. scarring on my lungs and i have some spots on my lungs. martha: and you all know people personally, your father. what happened to him? my father actually isn t a first responder. and he worked in lower manhattan diagnosed with first ape aappendices. lung cancer in both lungs in 2015 and then colon cancer in 2017. martha: i m sorry. this has been going on for eight years. martha: suffering greatly. i want to read this from dr. michael careen the world trade center health program told newsweek in 2016 what we do know is that it had all kinds of god awful things in it, talking about the powder and the debris that came down. he said burning jet fuel, plastics, metal, fiberglass, asbestos, it was thick, terrible stuff.