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1 day ago · Long-distance caregiving: Living far from a loved one who has cancer can make it difficult to provide hands-on care. Try to stay in regular communication with the person, coordinate visits or help ...
2 days ago · Decades of research have gone nowhere. Within the past 20 years, however, a once unfashionable field called immunotherapy has upended all expectations in oncology. It proceeds from a simple ...
5 days ago · The study, released Thursday by the American Cancer Society, looked at 30 types of cancer and 18 risk factors that could be changed by lifestyle choices, including things like smoking and body weight. Overall, cigarette smoking was the leading risk factor for cancer, contributing to nearly 20% of all cancer cases and 30% of all cancer deaths.
5 days ago · Three federal leaders – one each from the White House, the National Cancer Institute, and the Food and Drug Administration – mixed with Virginia Tech students, early career researchers, and leadership at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Cancer Research Center in Washington, D.C.
4 days ago · Virginia Tech (VT), officially the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VPI), is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It was founded as the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1872.
5 days ago · Home page for the Office of Research and Innovation at Virginia Tech. Provides a gateway to the research enterprise of Virginia Tech, ranging from sponsored programs, research compliance and integrity, and industrial research partnerships.
5 days ago · New Tech Finds More Cancer Risk. Air Date: Week of July 12, 2024. Johns Hopkins University researchers studied ethylene oxide across Louisiana's petrochemical corridor. Companies often resort to venting or flaring (pictured above) where gas is burned as a safety measure. Venting and flaring of petrochemical plants are seen as a significant ...
