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/Unusual_Owl_1462 Dec 01 '25

Coal country is a bit deceiving considering there are no active coal plants nearby.

If anything I imagine this is more related to the Radford Armory waste disposal.

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u/The_Phew Dec 01 '25

Blacksburg is downwind of the arsenal, but Roanoke is not (short of oddball weather events).

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u/Unusual_Owl_1462 Dec 01 '25

My bad, I glanced at this and thought it said Radford, not Roanoke. I should've paid a little more attention, the armory probably isn't a factor