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A hospital parked a screening bus at a library. 1,000 men have been screened. What does access to prostate screening actually look like where you are?
Sharing this with the community because it speaks to something I've thought about for years.
Emory's Winship Cancer Institute is running a mobile prostate cancer screening programme in Georgia — driving a bus to public libraries and offering free PSA blood tests for men 40–75. No appointment, no physical exam, no bill.
They recently passed 1,000 patients screened.
The design principle is simple: Black men and men without easy access to healthcare are the most underserved by traditional prostate cancer screening pathways. So Winship went to where those men already are — libraries, community spaces, places that already belong to the community.
It's the kind of programme that shouldn't feel novel in 2026. But it does.
I want to open this up here: what are people in this community seeing in terms of access to prostate screening? Whether you're in the UK, the US, Australia, or elsewhere — how hard is it actually for the men in your life to get a PSA test? And when they don't get one, what's the barrier?
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A hospital parked a screening bus at a library. 1,000 men have been screened. What does access to prostate screening actually look like where you are?
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