From high tech to high touch: integrating community voices in mobile mammography outreach.

Providing mobile screening mammography services across the state of West Virginia (WV) presents unique challenges. The ability of new machines to screen for breast cancer is modern medicine at its best. The use of the mobile unit, "Bonnie's Bus", holds promise for getting this high tech equipment to women in rural areas of West Virginia where it is most needed.

Building a statewide clinical trials network for cancer care in West Virginia.

In the United States, mortality rates have been declining for certain tumors, For the majority of advanced stage cancer types, cure is unattainable but treatment is still evolving. Advances in the treatment of cancer can be achieved by enrolling patients in cancer clinical trials. Presently, less than 3% of adult cancer patients participate on clinical trials in the United States.

The development and outcomes of a statewide network of hospital-based palliative care teams.

Background: Health care systems need to be developed that meet the palliative care needs of patients and their families.

Objective: The West Virginia Initiative to Improve End-of-Life Care charged its Palliative Care Delivery System Task Force with developing hospital-based palliative care teams in West Virginia.

Setting/subjects: A descriptive study of a state-community partnership to improve palliative care.