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UAMS details statewide cancer navigation program, mobile screening vans and NCI push
Summary
UAMS’s Winthrop B. Rockefeller Cancer Institute briefed the Senate Public Health committee on plans to expand community outreach and a patient‑navigation program across Arkansas, hire navigators, and deploy new mobile mammography and low‑dose CT vans; the legislature committed $3.5 million for new mobile units.
Leaders from the Winthrop B. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at UAMS told the Senate Public Health committee they are pursuing National Cancer Institute designation and building a statewide Community Outreach and Engagement (COE) program that treats Arkansas as the catchment area.
Michael Beere, director of the cancer institute, described the COE elements: a statewide catchment‑area needs…
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