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WHY IS IOWA’S CANCER RATE SO HIGH?

‘Was it really a smart choice for me to move back to Iowa and re-expose myself to whatever it is here that seems to be the cause of so much cancer?’

Posted 2/12/26

One of my earliest childhood memories is riding the elevators at Mayo Clinic when I was three years old, visiting my mom in the cancer ward. My mom, Jaclyn Eike, was 31 years old when she was …

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