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"It will benefit me in the future, should I have a re-occurrence or if I have to go for more surgery. Prior to that, I didn't know anything about it," Phang said of the program. "A friend called me a year after I was diagnosed after hearing an ad on the radio.

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She said she didn't immediately connect the disease to the terrorist attacks, and it was only after undergoing a double mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation that Phang learned she would've been entitled to free health coverage through the World Trade Center Health Program, which was established under the "James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010." She hurried to enroll. Although she nursed herself back to health from those ailments, 16 years later Phang was "blindsided" by a diagnosis she couldn't deal with on her own: breast cancer.