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New Mobile Cancer Clinic to Serve North Texas Counties

A new mobile cancer survivor clinic will serve people in nine rural counties in North Texas, an area with 15,000 underserved and under-insured cancer survivors.

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X-Ray Technologist Donna Fehl, prepares to scan a patient on a mobile mammogram machine at a clinic in Port Arthur, Texas, Monday, November 11, 2013.
Credit: Michael Stravato

A new mobile cancer survivor clinic will serve people in nine rural counties in North Texas, an area with 15,000 underserved and under-insured cancer survivors. The $1 million truck, which features a 75-foot-long trailer, is outfitted with a 3-D mammography unit, patient rooms and a telemedicine link to provide access to follow-up care. It was recently unveiled by UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Moncrief Cancer Institute. (WFAA-TV)

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