TTUHSC Receives $1M CPRIT Grant to Begin New Outreach Effort

In an effort to bolster access to colorectal cancer screening among underserved and uninsured Texans, the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) recently awarded a $1 million prevention grant to Rakhshanda Rahman, M.D., Rebeccah Baucom, M.D., and John Kidwell, M.D., from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine.

The grant, “Fecal Immunochemical Testing for Screening and Treatment of Occult Preneoplasia (FIT- STOP),” will allow the TTUHSC team to provide no-cost colorectal cancer screening and colonoscopies to underinsured and uninsured people living in 15 counties from the state’s South Plains region.