Cancer

Team Building With Appalachian Cryptids, This West Virginia Morning

Monsters in the workplace? Maybe. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is developing a team building game using Appalachian cryptids like Bigfoot and the Flatwoods Monster. Inside Appalachia’s Mason Adams spoke with Jessica Hammer, associate professor and director of the university’s Center for Transformational Play, to learn more.

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Clinical Trial Offers Hope To Cancer Patients With Grim Prognosis

The WVU Cancer Institute is enrolling pancreatic cancer patients in a clinic trial that's being done for the first time in humans.

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Appalachian Virginia County Wrestles With Childhood Cancer Cases

A cancer diagnosis can be devastating. And tragic when it happens to a child. But when multiple childhood cancer cases appear in a community, folks start asking questions. That’s what’s happening in Scott County, Virginia. Scott County has seen a dramatic rise in childhood cancer diagnoses. Marina Waters is a reporter who’s been covering the issue.

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Mobile Cancer Units Heading To Rural WVa. Counties

The WVU Mobile Cancer Screening Program will offer breast and lung cancer screenings in rural parts of West Virginia.

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