Fox News correspondent Eric Shawn revealed to viewers and colleagues on Thursday — on the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack on New York — that he was earlier this year diagnosed with cancer that stemmed from exposure to the toxic dust that engulfed the city in the aftermath.
Shawn, who covered the atrocity and the fallout extensively on the ground, said on the conservative network’s flagship morning show “Fox & Friends” that he first had bronchitis and then “cancer from the exposure.”
“That was diagnosed this year,” he said.
“And that’s been increased greatly, as we have just reported, because of the time that goes by, the decades continue, that’s when we start to see it,” he continued.
Shawn recalled thinking at the time of his reporting that “maybe 20, 30 years later I will get something.”
