SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Access to cancer clinical trials is expanding across the Avera footprint.

That means patients do not have to travel as far to get their treatment.

While Sioux Falls and Aberdeen patients have had access to trials for a number of years, Mitchell has been a recent addition.

In this Avera Medical Minute, you’ll hear from a patient who is able to get this type of care close to home.

Earlier this year, Jay Wempe found out that he had colon cancer.

“I had just had a colonoscopy four years ago, so I was not expecting anything there. They did the colonoscopy and said, ‘yeah, pretty sure you have cancer,’” said Wempe.

After confirmation of cancer, he had surgery.

“They were able to resect all of what the eye could see, and then he came to us after he had

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