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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.

The new, co-developed a-fib program delivers holistic care that magnifies specialty providers’ ability to see more patients and improve their quality of life.

We are talking about lung cancer and how precision oncology helps patients diagnosed with the disease with treatment.

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.

What began as a middle-of-the-night trip to the bathroom turned into a nightmare—and then a miracle—for 83-year-old Chillicothe resident Shirley Eskew. After getting out of bed, Shirley slipped and fell. “I just hit the concrete hard,” she remembers. Things got blurry after that, but she did manage to call for help and get to the emergency room at Hedrick Medical Center.