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Lawmakers, Experts to Join ACS CAN Forum on Rural Health

September 27, 2018

TOPEKA, Kan. – Sept. 27, 2018 – The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network will host its third-annual Kansas Cancer Policy Forum for community members about the unique challenges of accessing cancer treatment in rural Kansas on Thursday, Oct. 4. The forum will feature lawmakers and health care leaders from throughout the state.

 

This year, more than 15,000 Kansans will hear the words "you have cancer." Rural states like Kansas face many obstacles to providing adequate access to cancer screenings, treatments and prevention services. The forum will bring together diverse expert perspectives to explore these challenges and related policy opportunities.

 

WHO:             Tom Bell, president and CEO of the Kansas Hospital Association

                        Susan Concannon, state representative for district 107

                        Dr. Bob Moser, former state secretary of health and executive director of The University of Kansas Hospital’s Heart and Stroke Collaborative

                        Lisse Regehr, deputy director of outreach and advocacy for Thrive Allen County

   Mary Jo Taylor, state senator for district 33

WHAT:          ACS CAN Kansas Cancer Policy Forum: Cancer Prevention and Treatment in Rural Kansas

WHEN:        Thursday, Oct. 4

11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

WHERE:       Kansas Health Institute

212 SW 8th Ave. #300, Topeka

For additional details or to register, email Jordan Feuerborn at [email protected].

 

About ACS CAN

ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem.  ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people extraordinary power to fight cancer with the training and tools they need to make their voices heard. For more information, visit www.acscan.org.

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