Nonprofit Raises Awareness of Cancer Risks and Contaminants in the Bering Strait Region
![Last summer, residents of Gambell and Savoonga tested water samples for contaminants as part of an environmental health course led by Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT). Photo: Kristin Leffler, KNOM.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2015-06-29-kristin-ACAT-gambell-005-2432px-1200x795.jpg)
Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) was in Nome last week. The visit focused on one of the biggest toxic impacts in the Bering Strait: cancer.
December 2003: “No more powerful medium…”
December 26, 2003 A board member of Alaska’s Breast Cancer Detection Center writes, thanking the station for its free announcements that help to make a village mammogram program a great success: Many of the patients reported that they had heard about it on KNOM… This was the first time we had tried to market village […]