Siouxlanders’ Help Needed to “Block Out Cancer” This October

This October Wilson Trailer is working to “Block Out Cancer” and you can help achieve their goal of filling all punch holes on a Wilson livestock trailer, sitting out front of their corporate office in Sioux City, IA.

Wilson Trailer’s livestock and gooseneck trailers have “punch holes” that allow airflow into the livestock trailers in the hot summer months. But in cold weather, these punches are covered with “Block-Out Plugs” to protect the livestock. A donation of $10 fills a small punch hole and a donation of $100 fills a large punch hole on the trailer. Wilson Trailer is sweetening the goal too – they will match up to $31,000 in “Block Out Cancer” donations made in October.

All proceeds raised through “Block Out Cancer” will benefit the June E. Nylen Cancer Center (JENCC) and help support the costs to renovate and expand the infusion mixing room and the medically integrated dispensary, two “behind-the-scenes” areas of the cancer center that critically support what the medical team needs to care for the thousands of patients treated each year.

“We’re excited to use one of our livestock trailers to engage the Siouxland community in such a worthwhile cause,” says Tiffany Persinger, Vice President of Operations at Wilson Trailer Company. “Many of us know someone who has had cancer so supporting the June E. Nylen Cancer Center and its current project to renovate and expand two critical areas of its facility is another great opportunity for us to give back.”

Each day 150 people come to the June E. Nylen Cancer Center for hope and healing. Last year JENCC cared for more than 6,000 patients from the 15-county tri-state area who had nearly 40,000 patient visits.

“There has been a lot of innovation over the last several years in oral chemotherapy and immunotherapy as part of cancer treatment,” states Krista McCullough, Executive Director of the June E. Nylen Cancer Center. “Our medically integrated dispensary or MID has seen a 242% growth in the number of oral cancer treatment prescriptions filled for patients over the past 5 years and has outgrown the small space it was initially built in.

McCullough adds the Cancer Center will be soon starting a construction project that will move the MID to another area of their facility with more square footage, allowing the infusion mixing room to also expand and improve its workflow and efficiencies. The mixing room is where all chemotherapies and other infusion treatments are prepared for patients. The construction project to renovate and expand the infusion mixing room and the MID is estimated to cost $1.5 million.

“We ask Siouxlanders to join us in donating to fill all the block-out plugs in the trailer on display at our Corporate Office in Sioux City by the end of the month,” urges Persinger. “Let’s help the June E. Nylen Cancer Center provide even more hope and healing to patients.”