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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Iowa has high cancer rates. Trump's cuts to CDC and NIH are already hitting the state
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312108/trump-budget-cuts-nih-cdc-cancer-iowa

second highest cancer rate in the country (I never knew that)

From the article:
Evenhouse herself is 73 and has had multiple cancers — in the soft tissue near her spine, as well as her thyroid, blood, and left leg. Most of her doctors work in Iowa City — an hour and a half's drive from where she lives in Pella, the small town best known for manufacturing windows that go by the same name.

Mahaska Health, on the other hand, is a 25-bed hospital that's in Oskaloosa, relatively close to home. From there, Evenhouse can remotely access doctors from around the state to help her decide her care. Recently, for example, a team determined surgery on her back could be performed locally. "For me to go to Iowa City, my whole day is gone," she says. And often it takes up her husband's day, too, because sometimes Evenhouse cannot drive herself home after treatment. So she appreciates the ability to access nationally renowned specialists in her cancers close to home. "It's really an advantage for me because I can see the experts; I can get their input."

But the Iowa Cancer Affiliate Network, which connects Mahaska Health to a group of medical specialists, is funded by federal grants that face immediate, drastic cuts.

Article says nothing about votes for Trump or this woman's politics, but for people in rural areas with serious diseases the impact of such programs is huge.

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I bet it's pesticides. My mom's friend died of cancer after being exposed to pesticides on the farm growing up.

I moved to Iowa and was sick the whole first year. Someone there told me that was "normal" and I'd "get over it" after a year. Wtf!? I moved away fast.

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