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KSHB: New Cancer Treatment at Saint Luke’s Extends Kansas Woman’s Life Expectancy
Alexis Ellington has a renewed outlook on life after being the first Saint Luke's patient to receive a new cancer treatment called Bispecific T-cell Engagers therapy, or BiTE.
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Health News You Can Use: Saint Luke's North Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Program
Dr. Tim Pluard talks about an exciting expansion that will make cancer care more accessible to Kansas City’s growing Northland community.
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Double the Teamwork
Kelly Anspaugh received both a heart and kidney transplant at Saint Luke's.
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Health News You Can Use: Precision Oncology for Lung Cancer
We are talking about lung cancer and how precision oncology helps patients diagnosed with the disease with treatment.
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Health News You Can Use: Innovative Treatments & Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer
Dr. Tim Pluard, medical director of Saint Luke’s Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer and of Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute, talks about innovative treatment options for breast cancer and clinical trials offered at Saint Luke’s.
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Health News You Can Use: Early Onset Breast Cancer and Detection
We’re talking about how younger women and men can monitor for breast cancer and recent updates in screening guidelines.
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Health News You Can Use: Metastatic Breast Cancer and Saint Luke's Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer
This week during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re talking about metastatic breast cancer and Saint Luke’s Koontz Center—the region’s only center dedicated and designed specifically for these patients.
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Jim and Barbara: The Definition of ‘In This Together’ - Husband and Wife Face Lung Cancer
Over the years, they have done everything together: graduated high school, tied the knot, bought their first home, and raised a family. For all they have shared, they never dreamed of sharing a cancer diagnosis.
Hall of Fame Cowboy from Kansas Rides into his 80s with LVAD
After he survived a sudden heart attack and found his way to Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Duane had a procedure that would not only save his life but get him back to truly living.
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Grandmother of eight, baseball fanatic, breast cancer patient
Reconnecting with a former high school classmate turned out to be a saving grace in Lori’s life.