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Alamo mayor proclaims November 2025 Lung Cancer Awareness Month; DHR Health urges screenings for first responders
Summary
Mayor JR Garza read a formal proclamation declaring November 2025 as Lung Cancer Awareness Month; a DHR Health representative highlighted screening availability and urged outreach to firefighters and police. The commission adopted the proclamation during its regular meeting.
Mayor JR Garza read a proclamation declaring November 2025 as Lung Cancer Awareness Month for the City of Alamo and urged residents to use local screening resources.
"I, JR Garza, mayor of the city of Alamo, Texas, by the authority vested in me, do hereby on behalf of the citizens of Alamo, Texas, declare November 2025 as lung cancer awareness month," Garza said as he read the proclamation, which cites national and state lung cancer mortality statistics and emphasizes early diagnosis and screening.
Before the proclamation, a DHR Health representative addressed the commission to describe local outreach and screening availability and to ask the city to encourage first responders to use the services. "Being this month, the National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, we wanna make sure to continue to pass that information awareness, on not only the screenings that are available," the DHR Health representative said. The presenter named Amanda Wing as the community outreach coordinator for the Oncology Institute at Renaissance and asked that police and fire personnel be included in outreach efforts.
The proclamation text included statements that lung cancer causes more deaths than colon, breast and prostate cancer combined in the U.S., and noted local organizations working to raise screening rates in the Rio Grande Valley.
