VA plans new cancer research center with Stanford medical experts

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VA plans new cancer research center with Stanford medical experts
By Leo Shane III
Jun 30, 02:46 PM
A US soldier burns waste outside a base in south Afghanistan on June 15, 2006. VA on Friday announced plans for a new cancer research center that would focus in part on illnesses from burn pit smoke. (AP)

Veterans Affairs officials unveiled preliminary plans to build a new cutting-edge cancer care and research center in California with Stanford University as part of new public-private partnership efforts approved as part of sweeping toxic exposure legislation approved last summer.

Construction is still years away, but VA officials touted the announcement as a sign of what the future of department health care could be: groundbreaking research that benefits not only veterans suffering from the wounds of war, but also the country as a whole.

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