$3.75 million grant awarded to promote colorectal cancer screening in central Appalachia

$3.75 million grant awarded to promote colorectal cancer screening in central Appalachia
By Linda B. Blackford
The Lexington Herald Leader
Lexington, KY
July 10, 2014

The University of Kentucky Rural Cancer Prevention Center has received a $3.75 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to promote colorectal cancer screening in central Appalachia.

This is the center's second five-year round of competitive federal funding; the first five years of the project focused on cervical cancer prevention.

Kentucky has the nation's highest rates of cancer incidence and death, and more people from Appalachian Kentucky die from colorectal cancer than those in other regions of the state. The grant was announced at a news conference Thursday...

...The UK prevention center is one of 26 CDC-financed Prevention Research Centers in the country and the only one focused on rural cancer prevention. Under the center's umbrella, residents, public health professionals and researchers conduct applied prevention research to reduce the health disparities associated with cervical cancer, breast cancer and colorectal cancer among residents of the Kentucky River Health District.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/07/10/3331067/375-million-grant-awarded-to-promote.html#storylink=cpy