Tag: cancer screening
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Medicaid expansion boosts preventive care
More Kentuckians than ever are using preventive care services since the state expanded Medicaid on Jan. 1, reports FamiliesUSA, a lobby for federal health reform that included the expansion. Recent data...
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UK receives $3.75 million from CDC to use for colorectal cancer screening in Kentucky River’s headwater counties
The University of Kentucky Rural Cancer Prevention Center has received a $3.75 million, five-year grant renewal from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to use toward the prevention of...
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FDA reviews alternatives to colonoscopies to screen for colorectal cancer, including mail-in, stool-sampling kits
The Food and Drug Administration is examining the possibility of two alternatives to colonoscopies for identifying tumors and growths in the large intestine. Kentucky ranks high in deaths from colon cancer,...
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U of L researchers developing a breath test for lung cancer
Lung cancer victims often don’t notice any symptoms before it’s too late, and Kentucky suffers from the highest rate of the disease — 3,500 deaths per year. Smoking, the leading...
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Beshear budget would expand oral health, cancer screening, brain-injury treatment and alternatives to institutionalization
Gov. Steve Beshear’s proposed state budget includes money to expand oral health programs, screening for cervical and breast cancer, treatment for Kentuckians with brain injuries and programs to held disabled...
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Lifestyle changes and screening will decrease risk of cancer, which is especially deadly in Kentucky
This Kentucky Cancer Consortium graph shows the deaths from cancers with evidence-based prevention or early detection methods in Kentucky in 2005-09. By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky has the...
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Low-dose CT scans find lung cancer before X-rays, save lives
Low-dose computed tomography, commonly known as CT scans, are reducing lung-cancer deaths by finding the cancer early before it spreads to other parts of the body, UK HealthCare reports. Used...
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1 in 3 don’t get potentially life-saving screening for colon cancer, second leading cause of cancer death in Ky. and U.S.
Federal officials said Tuesday that although detecting colon cancer early saves lives, only about two-thirds of Americans aged 50 to 75 have undergone recommended screening. The U.S. Preventive Services Task...
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Ovarian cancer screening is critical in detecting tumors that don’t show up on clinical exams, and increases chance of survival
Kentucky First Lady Jane Beshear joined some of the state’s female legislators to highlight the importance of screening for ovarian cancer, which can be done for free through the University of...
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Free medical screenings, dental work for teens and adults available in Mayfield through Tuesday
West Kentuckians in need of health care can get free medical, dental and optical screenings through Tuesday, Aug. 13 at the old Morgan Haugh Clinic building at 220 W. Walnut St....