SIU project to offer cancer tests in 17 counties
July 5th, 2010
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.
Illinois health officials are working with Southern Illinois University to offer colon cancer screening tests to people in financial need and the uninsured.
The pilot project will offer blood tests and colonoscopies to residents of 17 central Illinois counties.
The Illinois Department of Public Health has awarded a $300,000 grant to SIU for the project. The university’s medical school and its Simmons Cancer Institute will be involved.
More details will be announced this summer.
The counties involved in the project will be Bond, Cass, Christian, DeWitt, Effingham, Fayette, Greene, Jersey, Logan, Macoupin, Mason, Menard, Montgomery, Morgan, Sangamon, Scott and Shelby.