RTI lands $10M-plus contract for cancer-radiation risk study
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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Seeking to better quantify links between radiation and cancer and then being able to prevent and treat cancer are the goals of a new research project at RTI International.
The National Cancer Institute will fund the five-year project that is worth nearly $11 million.
RTI researchers will work with radiation epidemiologists at the cancer institute.
"These studies will help characterize and quantify the cancer-causing effects of radiation," said John Heinrich, vice president of the Health Sciences Division in RTI's Statistics and Epidemiology unit, in a statement "The better we are able to understand the links between radiation exposures and various cancers, the more effective we will be at preventing and treating cancer."
RTI scientists will study epidemiological data from people exposed to various forms of radiation through medical treatments and work with dosimetrists at the institute involved in nuclear threat and radiation research.
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