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Date:5/8/2008

jobs and locations make them eligible for cancer screening and other RESEP services. They will be directed to a RESEP clinic by way of a mouse-over map that gives clinic phone numbers. Health providers will find clinical guidelines and other tools. People who cannot travel to a RESEP clinic are urged to talk to their physicians about their concerns, and get screened and treated if necessary.

"HRSA grantees under RESEP have reached out to affected individuals and health care providers in the Southwest since the first program awards were made several years ago," says HRSA Administrator Elizabeth Duke. "Now we want to use these Web-based resources and other tools to make sure RESEP services are available to all eligible individuals, wherever they may live now."

To spread the word about the outreach effort, HRSA will distribute several thousand "Dear Colleague" letters explaining RESEP goals to other Federal agencies and health care and health professional organizations across the country. The letters will ask organizations to join the effort by distributing an informational brochure and placing an ad explaining RESEP services in newsletters and other publications. Those brochure and ad are available online on the updated RESEP Web pages.

RESEP currently funds seven health and medical centers in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada. The clinics:

-- provide public education and information about radiation exposure;

-- offer free or low-cost screenings for radiation-related (radiogenic)

cancer and chronic illnesses;

-- make treatment referrals: and

-- help individuals diagnosed with radiogenic cancer or illness prepare

documentation and file compensation claims with DOJ.

HRSA will award approximately $1.5 million in three-year RESEP grants in September of this year. HRSA first made RESEP awards in 2002 under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) Amendments (<
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