TTUHSC Receives CPRIT Grant to Begin New Outreach Effort

By Office of Communications & Marketing
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September 15, 2022

FIT-STOP Program Seeks to Promote, Increase South Plains Colorectal Screening Rates

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 the 15 counties that comprise the state’s South Plains region.