Joey McLaughlin talks with Tia Rapps, Community Cancer Education Coordinator and Administrative RN at Springfield Memorial Hospital’s Regional Cancer Center and Dr. Ky Jung, 3rd year fellow with Hematology/Oncology at Simmons Cancer Institute at SIU about colorectal cancer awareness month and free screening kits that are being given away.

Free take-home screening tests for colon cancer will be distributed at three upcoming drive-thru events sponsored by the Regional Cancer Partnership, which includes Memorial Health, Springfield Clinic and SIU School of Medicine:

4 – 6 p.m., Monday, March 20, Simmons Cancer Institute, 315 W. Carpenter St., Springfield

5 – 7 p.m., Thursday, March 23, Springfield Clinic Circle Drive, 900 N. First St., Springfield

4:30 – 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 30, Memorial Drive-Thru Lab, 320 E. Carpenter St., Springfield