cancer prevention

Boone Health will offer free skin cancer screenings Saturday, Feb. 22 at The Crossing church, as well as free A1C and blood pressure screenings at the ARC.

The researches were awarded $3.8 million from the National Cancer Institute over five years to cover research expenses.

Missy Rice of the Department of Health and Senior Services' Show Me Healthy Women talks with KBIA's Anna Spidel about why cervical cancer screenings are important and how patients can stay informed.

According to the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer accounted for nearly 14.7% of all new US cancer cases in 2023.

This month, the American Cancer Society expanded its lung cancer screening recommendations to yearly, low-dose CT scans for those aged 50 to 80 who formerly or currently smoke and have a 20 or greater "pack year" history. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith spoke with Dr. Sebastian Wiesemann and Dr. Vipul Bhanderi from Ellis Fischel Cancer Center about these new recommendations.

WELLAWARE’s small truck is parked outside of plaza 3 at the Broadway medical plaza and will be there throughout the summer checking people for signs of…

A national consortium of scientists has sequenced the genome of a common type of lung cancer. The work suggests that the key to treating cancer may lie in…

This week, we’ll hear from one MU researcher about the risk factors for alcohol dependence, and hear about cancer prevention. More than half of cancer…