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Organ Transplant Provides Freedom, OpportunityBrendan Conner was born with Alport syndrome. As the disease progressed, his cousin, Kyle Baldwin, stepped in with a living kidney donation, which is helping Brendan enter the next chapter of his life.
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Patient Invites Cameras into Lifesaving Transplant SurgeryIn a rare opportunity, The University of Kansas Hospital invites a camera inside the operating room during a liver transplant.
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Lung Cancer Screening Saved My LifeLinda Wilber, 64, decided to be more proactive about her health more than 12 years ago. She and her husband, Stephen, quit smoking, started to grow and preserve their own vegetables, recommitted to regular exercise and jumped on any opportunity to t...
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CAR T-Cell Therapy Helps Lymphoma Survivor Beat Cancer AgainIn her decades serving and advocating for Latinos and other communities of color in the Kansas City area, CiCi Rojas has worked tirelessly. She has held roles as CEO and president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City, vice pres...
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Surviving Male Breast CancerThis is how Skip Quimby decided to approach his breast cancer diagnosis: as a learning experience, with a little of his characteristic humor thrown in for good measure. When asked what he got for his birthday in October 2008, for instance, Skip says...
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Doctor Becomes a Breast Cancer SurvivorJane Broxterman, MD, is an internal medicine physician at The University of Kansas Health System. About half of her patients are breast cancer survivors and women living with metastatic cancer. She has encouraged women through their darkest hours wi...
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Metastatic Colon Cancer Patient Saved by Aggressive TreatmentLaura Perez, 20, is a gentle soul with a special connection to animals. This spring, she found an injured fawn on the side of the road near her home in Kansas City, Kansas. She nursed it back to health, and now the young doe, named Petunia, frolics...
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Clinical Trial Detects Breast Cancer in Dense BreastsIn 2000, 40-year-old Stephanie Annable had what she thought would be another routine mammogram. But in her film, the radiologist saw a small cluster of calcifications. Those turned out to be stage 0 breast cancer. Stephanie knew how fortunate she wa...
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Prostate Cancer Is No Match for Comprehensive TreatmentWith a larger-than-life personality, charitable nature and sense of community, Charley Vogt never considered his biggest opponent in life would be cancer. Yet, when he was diagnosed with stage 3 prostate cancer in December 2013, Charley said the dis...