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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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…
Lahn says Iowa's cancer rate linked to agricultural practices
Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for governor, says the state’s high cancer rate “is tied into agriculture” and that assessment is not popular with many of his Republicans. “We just have to own it and solve it,” Lahn said. “…We’ve passed the point of being able to not address this…It doesn’t matter if you’re left […]
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Sioux City JournalLahn questions Sand’s nonpartisan credentials in Iowa governor’s race
Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for Iowa governor, and state party chairman Jeff Kaufmann on Friday reiterated their insistence that Rob Sand, the Democratic candidate, is not the nonpartisan politician he claims to be.
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