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Two mobile cancer screening units will be traveling to rural counties in West Virginia to offer early detection for breast and lung cancer.
Bonnie’s Bus will offer 3D mammograms for patients in Mingo and Logan counties, and LUCAS, a state-of-the-art mobile lung cancer screening unit, will travel to Mercer, Clay, Nicholas and Jefferson counties at the end of September and early October.
Both services are designed for at-risk patients who may struggle to access early screenings that are key to successful treatment, said Jenny Ostien, director of the WVU Mobile Cancer Screening Program.
“We go to areas that have the least access to a standing facility or traditional hospital or screening center. That way, these patients don’t have to worry about the travel as much. We also have funding, through grants and donations, to cover West Virginia patients who may be uninsured,
Bonnie’s Bus will be at:
LUCAS will be at:
Both screenings are billed to private insurance, Medicaid or Medicare.Patients who are uninsured or underinsured will get assistance in applying for a grant program to cover the cost of the procedure.
Lung cancer affects more people in West Virginia than breast, colorectal, cervical cancer combined,” Ostein said. “West Virginia also has one of the highest, if not highest, rates of smoking in the country, and smoking is the main contributor to lung cancer.”
She added that early detection is key to successful treatment for both breast and lung cancer.
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Two federally important facilities located in West Virginia require a strict limit on radio frequency interference. But for decades – increasingly as communication systems have become more advanced – those limits have made it difficult for emergency crews and first responders in Pendleton and Pocahontas counties to do their jobs as safely and effectively as possible. Now the results of a lengthy federal study show exactly how precarious the situation is. We caught up with Pendleton County Emergency Management’s Rick Gillespie to find out what the study shows and what happens next.
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