Cancer concerns drive Medicaid advocates

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Cancer concerns drive Medicaid advocates

Special to Wesson News   Nearly 100 cancer patients, survivors and caregivers from across the state traveled to the State Capitol in Jackson last month to tell Mississippi lawmakers to make fighting cancer a priority by expanding Medicaid.   In Mississippi, 18,000 people are expected to be diagnosed with cancer this year, and nearly 8,000 will die from the disease, they explained in linking cancer-fighting steps to Medicaid expansion as a priori…