KU Cancer Center turned a bus into a mobile screening clinic for rural Missouri and Kansas towns ^3.2%

KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR - By Noah Taborda - 3/26/2026, 4:25 PM

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Many communities across the vast expanse of Kansas and western Missouri don’t have easy access to cancer screenings. Even in bigger towns and cities that do have a cancer center, some people aren’t getting screened because of a lack of awareness or some other geographical obstacle. That’s why the University of Kansas Cancer Center has... more