The Iowa Cancer Registry plans to deliver county-specific reports to all 99 counties in Iowa and meet with communities to point out particular policies or trends that might be driving higher rates of one particular type of cancer.

Mary Charlton, director of the Iowa Cancer Registry, said Iowa continues to have increasing cancer figures where other states are seeing steady or declining rates. She said it’s important for Iowans to know this research and to get involved in pushing for changes that could lower these rates. 

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(This story originally appeared in the Iowa Capital Dispatch and was also published in the Des Moines Register and The Gazette)

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