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  • Cancer care & well-being: VA empowers Veterans nationwide

    Cancer care & well-being: VA empowers Veterans nationwide

    Veterans are strongly encouraged to talk to their VA provider about the wrap-around, whole health approach to cancer care available at VA.

  • Stay on top of your health: Get screened for cancer

    Stay on top of your health: Get screened for cancer

    Veterans are strongly encouraged to talk to their VA provider about the need for different cancer screenings and what screening options are available.

  • A Navy Veteran’s courageous fight against breast cancer

    A Navy Veteran’s courageous fight against breast cancer

    VA can support you through a breast cancer diagnosis with access to genetic testing and multidisciplinary model approaches.

  • Discovering VA cancer care and wellness for Veterans

    Discovering VA cancer care and wellness for Veterans

    VA provides resources and guidance to reduce the risk of cancer and maintain wellness through post-treatment

  • Cancer care for American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans

    Cancer care for American Indian and Alaska Native Veterans

    Of the 160,000 American Indian/Alaska Native Veterans, 41% of those service-connected Veterans are screened for some cancers at lower rates than other groups.

  • VA colonoscopies assisted by AI increase pre-cancerous polyp detection rate

    VA colonoscopies assisted by AI increase pre-cancerous polyp detection rate

    More than 38,000 VA colonoscopies have been performed using artificial intelligence (AI) devices.

  • Supporting black Veterans with cancer, and their families

    Supporting black Veterans with cancer, and their families

    VA supports black Veterans who may be at-risk or in the midst of a cancer journey... reducing barriers to VA’s best-in-class cancer care.

  • Increasing Veteran access to colon cancer screenings

    Increasing Veteran access to colon cancer screenings

    Dr. Jason Dominitz is working to spread mailed test kits, an at-home solution to colon cancer screening, on a national scale.

  • You’re invited: Live, virtual cancer conversation

    You’re invited: Live, virtual cancer conversation

    VA to host live virtual event: “Cancer Cabinet Community Conversation Highlighting Minority Health Month”

  • Resilient cancer patient grateful for Houston VA

    Resilient cancer patient grateful for Houston VA

    Cancer patient: “The doctors and infusion nurses are wonderful. They really do care about everybody. You can just tell by the way they treat people.”

  • Birmingham VA harnesses AI tech to fight colon cancer

    Birmingham VA harnesses AI tech to fight colon cancer

    Birmingham VA using GI Genius Intelligent Endoscopy Module, powered by artificial intelligence, to reduce Veterans' risk of colon cancer.

  • VA Did That: Advancing White House Cancer Moonshot

    VA Did That: Advancing White House Cancer Moonshot

    To decrease cancer deaths, VA is part of the White House Cancer Moonshot to reduce cancer mortality by 50 percent in the next 25 years.

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