Lahn: Cancer in Iowa Talk without Water Quality ‘Not Genuine’
Lahn said the state should study pesticides and water quality and expand early screening as Iowa weighs more cancer prevention funding.
- On Tuesday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn stated Iowa's high cancer rates are "tied into agriculture," arguing that water quality is a critical component of the state's health crisis.
- Lahn, who lost his father to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, proposed redirecting university funding from humanities to pediatric cancer research, describing it as having a higher "value proposition."
- He supports state-initiated contract pricing for early cancer screening tests costing more than $800 for individuals and stated he would back a tobacco tax hike if paired with smoking cessation policies.
- Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand supported expanding the $3 million in pediatric cancer research funding approved by the state Legislature and Governor Kim Reynolds in May.
- The University of Iowa is conducting state-funded research to investigate causes of Iowa's high cancer rates, with results from the next phase expected this summer.
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Iowa governor candidate Zach Lahn ties agriculture and water to state’s high cancer rates
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Iowa Candidates Address Farming Practices and Cancer Rates
Iowa has the second-highest rate of cancer in the country, and both candidates for governor are putting this issue at the forefront of their campaigns. At an event with the American Cancer Society, MAHA Republican nominee for governor Zach Lahn said the state’s high cancer rates are “tied into agriculture” and Iowa’s water system. “I...
Mason City Globe GazetteMuscatine JournalLahn: Cancer in Iowa talk without water quality ‘not genuine’
Trying to address Iowa’s high cancer rates without also discussing the state’s water quality “isn’t a genuine discussion,” Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for Iowa governor, said Tuesday.
Lahn says cancer crisis isn't partisan and it must be solved in Iowa
Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn at an American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network in Urbandale Aug. 18, 2026. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn said Tuesday that Iowa’s cancer crisis was one the reasons he entered the race and said regardless of party, it’s a problem that has to be solved. Lahn spoke in Urbandale with cancer survivors and volunteers with the American Cancer S…
Lahn says cancer crisis isn’t partisan and it must be solved in Iowa
Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn said Tuesday that Iowa’s cancer crisis was one the reasons he entered the race and said regardless of party, it’s a problem that has to be solved. Lahn spoke in Urbandale with cancer survivors and…
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