State not ending support for cancer screenings
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   The state Health Department said today screenings of people without health insurance for breast, cervical and colon cancer will continue for the rest of the year despite word yesterday that the money has run out.
The calls made to providers telling them there would be no more money were in error, a spokeswoman said.
The state Health Department last year provided 88,000 screenings at a cost of about $29 million to pay for the tests for people without health insurance of whose insurance doesn’t cover the tests.
Agencies in Westchester County, the Southern Tier and other parts of the state got calls from the state yesterday saying that the money has run out, advocates said.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
