VCU Massey’s David Wheeler awarded $1.7M to study long-term effects of neighborhood exposures and racial segregation on cancer risk

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David Wheeler, member of the Cancer Prevention and Control research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center, was awarded a five-year, $1.7 million R01 grant from NCI to study thelong-term effects of neighborhood exposures and racial segregation on cancer risk through the use of innovative statistical models and analysis.

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