For every careful step forward in cancer research, there is a patient waiting — a family holding its breath in the middle of the night.
That reality was clear at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute’s Cancer Research Symposium in Roanoke held June 11-12.
The annual event, organized this year by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC’s Cancer Research Center in Roanoke, was created to bring together researchers — including faculty, clinicians, and students — who are united by a passion to understand cancer, improve treatments, and develop cures…