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Presenters say increased screening and more clinicians needed to reduce cancer deaths in rural Georgia
Summary
Physicians and program leaders told the committee that increasing screening prevalence for colon, breast, cervical and lung cancers could prevent deaths and save money, but Georgia’s screening rates lag in many rural counties and shortages of primary care and specialty clinicians complicate outreach.
Physicians and nonprofit program leaders described screening as the most direct way to reduce cancer deaths and long‑term costs, but they told the committee Georgia’s screening rates and clinician distribution limit impact in large parts of the state.
“Screening prevents or detects early cancer at curable stages,” said Dr. Kush Desai, an internal medicine physician and assistant dean for the Medical College of Georgia Southwest campus, who described a rural colorectal screening program that raised…
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