Lake City Reporter
By Carl McKinney
Cancer diagnoses are deadlier in Columbia County than most of North Central Florida, a region already facing the highest cancer mortality rate in the state.
The county sees fewer diagnoses than the rest of the state, but that just makes the local mortality rate even more alarming, said Myesha Ponder, co-author of WellFlorida Council’s 2016 North Central Florida cancer report.
“Our numbers aren’t bad when it comes to people getting cancer,” she said. “It’s people dying from it.”
The study looked at reported […]