The West Virginia University Cancer Institute (WVUCI) is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art care to West Virginians close to home. While growing our regional care network and increasing access to clinical services, we are also taking cancer screening to communities throughout the state, in communities that need it most. Mobile cancer screening provides our state’s most rural residents the highest quality of care without the need for them to travel long distances. Working with local clinics, businesses, and healthcare providers, Bonnie’s Bus Mobile Mammography Unit, and our mobile lung cancer screening unit travel across the state to offer screening services where it is convenient for the patients. Both units are led by the WVU Cancer Institute’s Cancer Prevention and Control staff and are operated by WVU Hospitals. Together with local communities and medical providers, we are working to reduce the impact of cancer in West Virginia (WV) through early cancer detection.

Bonnie’s Bus (BB) travels across the state providing breast cancer screening, especially in rural parts of the state with limited or no access to screening mammography. Since 2009, Bonnie’s Bus has completed almost 28,000 screening mammograms and discovered at least 157 cases of breast cancer.

LUCAS, an acronym for WVUCI’s mobile Lung Cancer Screening Unit, serves West Virginians from throughout the state with visits to the 42 counties without immediate access to lung cancer screening services. Since its start in September 2021, LUCAS provided almost 1,300 screenings and identified seven cases of lung cancer. More West Virginians die of lung cancer than colorectal, prostate, and breast cancer combined. We know that early cancer detection saves lives.

Speaker: Lauren McCauley-Hixenbaugh, MBA, Program Manager, West Virginia University Cancer Institute

Conference 2023