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Health News You Can Use: Importance of Lung Cancer Screenings
Lung Cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related death in the United States. But only around 18% of all those eligible were screened in 2022, according to the American Lung Association.
A Precautionary Low-Dose Lung Cancer Screening Saved Bill’s Life
Bill Euwer heard all the warnings about smoking.
During a 2023 checkup at Saint Luke’s Primary Care in Lee’s Summit, Bill’s nurse practitioner suggested he get a low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening based on his smoking history to rule out the possibility of cancer.
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Health News You Can Use: Perimenopause
Perimenopause is the transition between reproductive age and menopause, which can last several years and affect physical, emotional, mental and social well-being.
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FOX 4: Saint Luke's Physician Shares Insights on Perimenopause During Women's Health Week
Learn more about signs and symptoms of perimenopause, navigating treatment, and how your women's health provider can help in this segment with Bret Gordon, DO, division chair at Saint Luke’s Women’s Health South.
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Health News You Can Use: Advances in Transplant & Organ Donation
Dr. Matthew Wilkinson, a transplant surgeon at Saint Luke’s talks about the advances in organ donation and the importance of living organ donation.
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Health News You Can Use: Living Organ Donation
More than 100,000 people are on the wait list for a life-saving transplant—and more than 85% of those can be helped by a living donor.
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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.
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The Perfect Kidney Transplant Match
Emery Stone was in total kidney failure. And that’s when everything changed. Not only for Emery, but for the entire Stone family.