/tags/cancer Cancer en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:01:00 GMT /health/2024-03-01/texas-screening-rates-for-colon-cancer-are-in-the-toilet-dell-med-experts-want-to-change-that The CONNECT initiative aims to create a statewide network of colorectal cancer screening resources to help prevent a common yet highly preventable disease. Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:01:00 GMT /health/2024-03-01/texas-screening-rates-for-colon-cancer-are-in-the-toilet-dell-med-experts-want-to-change-that Olivia Aldridge /health/2023-05-11/mail-in-poop-test-colon-cancer-screening A partnership between Dell Medical School and CommUnityCare caused rates of lifesaving screening among low-income and uninsured patients to shoot up. Now, program leaders want to scale the initiative across Texas. Thu, 11 May 2023 20:53:29 GMT /health/2023-05-11/mail-in-poop-test-colon-cancer-screening Olivia Aldridge /energy-environment/2022-06-30/environmental-advocates-say-fayette-coal-plant-is-poisoning-residents-push-city-to-test-water Austin partially owns a coal-powered plant in Fayette County. Advocates say coal ash there is not properly stored, potentially getting into the water and land. Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:33:25 GMT /energy-environment/2022-06-30/environmental-advocates-say-fayette-coal-plant-is-poisoning-residents-push-city-to-test-water Skye Seipp /health/2022-01-31/cervical-cancer-kills-black-women-at-a-disproportionately-higher-rate-than-whites Cervical cancer, which is largely preventable, and if caught early, highly treatable, has an outsized impact on Black women's mortality, a January study finds. Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:48:28 GMT /health/2022-01-31/cervical-cancer-kills-black-women-at-a-disproportionately-higher-rate-than-whites Alana Wise /health/2021-09-01/state-expands-medical-marijuana-access-to-all-cancer-patients-and-texans-with-ptsd Lawmakers also increased the allowable level of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. But not by much. Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:31:29 GMT /health/2021-09-01/state-expands-medical-marijuana-access-to-all-cancer-patients-and-texans-with-ptsd Jerry Quijano /health/2020-02-12/cancer-charity-founded-by-lance-armstrong-relaunches-itself The cancer charity whose yellow wristbands became a global brand under founder Lance Armstrong is seeking to reinvent itself, years after donations and� Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:01:00 GMT /health/2020-02-12/cancer-charity-founded-by-lance-armstrong-relaunches-itself Jim Vertuno | The Associated Press /texas/2020-01-30/residents-of-houstons-fifth-ward-want-answers-about-abnormally-high-cancer-rates From Texas Standard:U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and famed environmental activist Erin Brockovich came to Houston's Fifth Ward last week to raise� Thu, 30 Jan 2020 22:39:16 GMT /texas/2020-01-30/residents-of-houstons-fifth-ward-want-answers-about-abnormally-high-cancer-rates Alexandra Hart /texas/2019-03-22/lawsuits-over-roundups-health-effects-could-impact-texas-agriculture From Texas Standard:In 2016, a groundskeeper from California named Edwin Hardeman filed a lawsuit against Monsanto, an agribusiness company that's since� Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:26:12 GMT /texas/2019-03-22/lawsuits-over-roundups-health-effects-could-impact-texas-agriculture Michael Marks /life-arts/2017-11-08/dr-tracy-randall-on-faith-cancer-and-his-new-cd On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with entertainment attorney Dr. Tracy Randall, Ph.D. The Grammy-nominated� Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:43:22 GMT /life-arts/2017-11-08/dr-tracy-randall-on-faith-cancer-and-his-new-cd John L. Hanson Jr. /life-arts/2017-03-12/at-sxsw-joe-biden-pledges-to-work-with-trump-to-end-cancer-as-we-know-it Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged Sunday to work with President Donald Trump in the fight against cancer, a cause Biden took up in his final year in� Sun, 12 Mar 2017 22:29:34 GMT /life-arts/2017-03-12/at-sxsw-joe-biden-pledges-to-work-with-trump-to-end-cancer-as-we-know-it Patrick Svitek