The University of Iowa is opening a new program, the Community Health Assessment and Monitoring in the Pharmacy, or CHAMP, to increase lung cancer screening rates in Iowa to address the state’s high case rate and low survival rate.
According to Iowa Health and Human Services, only about 20 percent of eligible Iowans receive a lung cancer screening annually.
In a 2025 report, The American Lung Association indicated that the rate of lung cancer cases in Iowa is 60.3 per 100,000, above the national average of 52.8, with a survival rate of 27.1 percent, below the average national rate of 29.7 percent…