{"id":323565,"date":"2026-08-17T23:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323565\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:38:09","slug":"why-a-mount-sinai-researcher-turned-her-attention-to-cancer-on-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323565\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Mount Sinai Researcher Turned Her Attention to Cancer on Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mount Sinai researcher Maaike van Gerwen turned her attention to cancer rates on Staten Island. She studies thyroid cancer and environmental exposures, and released a report on Fresh Kills Landfill. The report looks at whether Staten Island&#8217;s elevated cancer rates may be linked to exposures from the former dump. Van Gerwen said screening may be part of the answer, but not everything. The borough&#8217;s thyroid cancer incidence rate was 29.4 cases per 100,000 population from 2019 through 2023. Researchers also found age-adjusted rates increased 2.7 percent per year from 2000 to 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mount Sinai researcher Maaike van Gerwen turned her attention to cancer rates on Staten Island. She studies thyroid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[121874,96533,9,24,63,134,136,135,121872,121873],"class_list":["post-323565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-environmental-exposures","tag-fresh-kills-landfill","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-thyroid-cancer","tag-van-gerwen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}