Stan Morse, 59, at his home in Virginia Beach, Feb. 7, 2019. Six months after retiring from the Virginia Beach Fire Department, he was diagnosed with throat cancer. State law considers a number of cancers, including throat cancer to be occupational diseases but Morse was denied worker's compensation because he could not point to the specific carcinogen and date he got cancer. He is now urging state and local officials to review the law. (L. Todd Spencer)