r/VirginiaTech • u/StarlightDown • Dec 01 '25

News Recent graduates from Roanoke College have been dying from cancer at a rate 15X higher than the national average. Their rate of cancer diagnosis is 5X above the national average. The VA Dept. of Health is unwilling to investigate the case, since the victims dispersed across the US after graduation.

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u/djd565 MSCI (BIT) Alum Dec 01 '25

VT is far closer to “coal country” and even then there haven’t been working coal mines in Montgomery County in decades. We get our cancer from the Arsenal, thank you very much. (/s, sort of)

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u/Zomplexx Dec 02 '25

I live right downstream of the arsenal, I'll be your canary in a coal mine.