Breast cancer diagnosis leads to Long Island man's message about 9/11 toxins

Dominic D'Amico was washing his hands in his Smithtown office when he looked in the mirror and noticed he was bleeding through his shirt.

"I said, I’ve got to get to the doctor,"' remembered D’Amico, 73, of St. James. "There's something wrong here."

After he underwent a biopsy and a mammogram, D'Amico's doctors gave him an unexpected diagnosis that affects about one in 1,000 men — he had stage 1 breast cancer.

But for D’Amico, who had worked for an electrical contractor at Ground Zero in the weeks following 9/11, his case was not as unlikely as he thought.

A little over two years later, in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, D’Amico — whose cancer is in remission — is sharing his story to bring attention to both the disease and the World Trade Center Health Program to help