AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Fox News correspondent Eric Shawn confronts 9/11 cancer diagnosis as buried air quality records surface
Twenty-five years after reporting from Ground Zero, Fox News Senior Correspondent Eric Shawn is battling skin cancer and undergoing prostate cancer surveillance, and newly released government documents show officials knew the air he breathed was far from safe. Shawn, 69, a New York native who has covered the September 11 anniversary from lower Manhattan every […] The post Fox News correspondent Eric Shawn confronts 9/11 cancer diagnosis as buried air quality records surface appeared first on American Almanac .
Twenty-five years after reporting from Ground Zero, Fox News Senior Correspondent Eric Shawn is battling skin cancer and undergoing prostate cancer surveillance, and newly released government documents show officials knew the air he breathed was far from safe. Shawn, 69, a New York native who has covered the September 11 anniversary from lower Manhattan every year since the attacks, disclosed his diagnosis during a live 2025 "Fox and Friends" segment that left his colleagues visibly stunned. His skin cancer is linked to the toxic dust and smoke he inhaled while reporting from the wreckage of the World Trade Center in the days after the towers fell. His Prostate-Specific Antigen level, a key marker doctors use to screen for prostate…Open
