{"id":453971,"date":"2026-10-02T05:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453971\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T05:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T05:02:09","slug":"free-skin-cancer-screenings-offered-saturday-as-the-sun-bus-visits-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/453971\/","title":{"rendered":"Free skin cancer screenings offered Saturday as The Sun Bus visits Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Sun Bus, a mobile dermatology clinic that travels across the country to look for skin cancer, is returning to Lubbock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dermatologists from Lilly and Epiphany Clinics are partnering with Lubbock Christian University for the event.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Sun Bus, a mobile dermatology clinic that travels across the country to look for skin...\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/KCDLOKNSLVAV3HANOXNFDB3VIQ.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"1225\" \/>The Sun Bus, a mobile dermatology clinic that travels across the country to look for skin cancer, is returning to Lubbock.(Provided by LCU)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Students to assist with screenings<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pre-health studies students at LCU are volunteering their Saturday after giving up a Friday to learn how to help the doctors and make the check-in process faster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s a free opportunity to get a skin care screening from experts in the field that do this on a regular basis, so no cost to you,\u201d said Toby Rogers, Ph.D., dean of the LCU College of Science and Health Professions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSo it\u2019s a great opportunity for our pre-health students to get exposure to medical care, skin cancer specifically, to learn how to interact with patients and learn about the screening process,\u201d Rogers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The goal is to get as many people as they can through the Sun Bus on Saturday to look for skin cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No appointment necessary<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No appointment is needed to visit the Sun Bus. It will be parked outside Lubbock Impact at 34th Street and Boston Avenue, with skin cancer screenings provided between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Sun Bus, a mobile dermatology clinic that travels across the country to look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-453971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}