Physicians can raise awareness of the Nuclear Radiation Compensation Program and help affected patients get access to free screening.
When nuclear tests detonated in Nevada during the 1950s and 1960s, a Salt Lake City physician knew danger would blow into town on the wind. So, he set about to protect his family from radiation.
“Creating this fund was certainly the ethical and moral thing to do,” said Moench, who’s fought to expand RECA but can’t apply for compensation since the forms of cancer he developed — skin and prostate — aren’t covered. Politicians in affected states raised the alarm and pushed to renew RECA. Legislation was tucked into the mammoth “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which passed Congress largely upon party lines and was signed by the president in July 2025.
They must have lived in the areas for at least 2 years after January 1, 1949. The eligible diseases, which must have an onset at least 2 years after the date of initial exposure, are multiple myeloma; lymphoma; cancer of the thyroid, breast, esophagus, stomach, pharynx, small intestine, pancreas, bile ducts, gall bladder, salivary gland, bladder, brain, colon, ovary, bone, renal, liver , lung, or leukemia .
The screenings cover cancer and noncancer conditions. “We continue to get contacted by individuals who in these communities who have never heard of this program, even though we’ve been holding clinics since 2005,” Shaw said in an earlier interview. “Despite outreach activities and advertising through newspapers and radio, we find the most successful method of reaching these patients is through word of mouth — either from other patients or their doctors.
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