LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health received a $15 million grant from the CDC to help reduce cancer in the state of Louisiana.
The five-year grant will support LSU Health's Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health, Louisiana Tumor Registry and Comprehensive Cancer Control programs to advance cancer education, early detection, comprehensive control and registry.
"While Louisiana has one of the highest death rates from cancer in the country, the cancer control programs at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health are working across the state to help Louisianans prevent cancers such as cervical, colorectal, skin, and tobacco-related cancers and to detect cancers such as breast very early when 95 out of 100 cases can be cured," said Donna Williams, DrPH, director of Louisiana Cancer Prevention and Control Programs and associate dean for public health practice and community engagement at LSU Health New Orleans.