About 150 people screened for cancer at One Stop Cancer Shop events this year
UNMC nursing students helped staff the year's final event Nov. 7, and Mayor John W. Ewing Jr. stopped by to thank them.
OMAHA — More than 50 people got cancer screenings at the One Stop Cancer Shop on Nov. 7, bringing this year's total to about 150 people across three events, according to the UNMC Newsroom.
The Nov. 7 event was the last one of 2026. Two of this year's events were held in Omaha and one in Lincoln, UNMC reported. The events are a joint effort of the One Stop Cancer Shop, a community organization, with Nebraska Medicine, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center and the UNMC College of Nursing.
About 50 UNMC nursing students volunteered on Nov. 7, working with clinicians and staff from the cancer center and Nebraska Medicine. Omaha Mayor John W. Ewing Jr. stopped by to thank the students, UNMC said. More than 150 nursing students volunteered at the events this year, said Alyson Hanish, an assistant professor in the UNMC College of Nursing.
"By being in the community setting, we can work with people where they are, where they live, where they get healthcare ..." - Alyson Hanish, assistant professor, UNMC College of Nursing
UNMC's post did not say where the Nov. 7 event was held, which screenings were offered or when the next event will be. Readers with questions can call UNMC at 402-559-4000, the main number listed on the university's site.
Source: UNMC Newsroom, "Mayor thanks students at One Stop Cancer Shop," Nov. 12, 2026.
How we checked this: Reported from the UNMC Newsroom post listed above, opened Nov. 14, 2026, at 5:28 a.m. CT, and checked against the record by our copy desk before publishing.