MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
More Americans than ever are surviving cancer, but Iowa is one of the few states where cancer rates are increasing. Scientists are still figuring out why. As they do, a growing number of survivors there are in need of mental health care after treatment ends. Iowa Public Radio’s Natalie Krebs has this report.
NATALIE KREBS, BYLINE: Back in 2015, Morgan Newman was busy building her life. She was working as a dental assistant in Des Moines and studying to become a social worker. Then she got an abnormal result on her Pap smear. She wasn’t that concerned about it. She was only 24. She went back to the doctor so they could check her for abnormal tissue…