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Annual Wellness Exams

Regular checkups are an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle and preventing illness. Annual wellness exams are a cornerstone of preventive care that provide an opportunity for the early detection of disease or illness. The primary care...

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Request Images/Results

Requesting your results can vary based on the format you need in order to receive them.Digital and film image access The Radiology Imaging Center, or RIC, is happy to provide you with images from your exams for follow-up care, insurance purposes...

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Skin Cancer Survivorship

As a melanoma survivor, we provide personalized care to help prevent, detect and treat side effects that may result from your cancer treatment. Your melanoma survivorship care team includes a disease-specific medical oncologist, advanced practice pr...

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Cervical Cancer Symptoms and Risks

Understanding the possible causes and symptoms of cervical cancer is an important part of getting an accurate diagnosis, followed by the best treatment. Any woman who has her cervix is at possible risk for cervical cancer. All women should know the...

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Brain Cancer Resources

With ever-expanding and ever-improving treatments, more people are becoming long-term survivors, even those with aggressive brain cancers. Published survival data is difficult to interpret because of the delay between when the care was provided and...

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Recovery

When your blood and marrow transplant (BMT) is complete, your team at The University of Kansas Cancer Center will provide you with lifelong care and support that includes annual visits and checkups. After your final stem cell transfusion, it usually...

Patient Story

Early Lung Cancer Screening Provides Lifesaving Crucial Catch

Bettye Givens has a smoking habit that’s 50-plus years old. She knew it was time to shake her habit because the risk of developing lung cancer was weighing on her. “I’ve been smoking a long time, so I knew I was at risk,” admits Bettye, 72, of Kansa...

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Surviving Uterine and Ovarian Cancers

At age 32, Mandy Garavaglia and her husband, Johnny, hoped to conceive a second child through in vitro fertilization. A local reproductive clinic had helped the couple get pregnant with their daughter, Stella. During the embryo implantation procedur...

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Umbilical Cord Stem Cell Transplant for Blood Cancer Offers Hope, Progress

Emily Bennett was flipping through magazines when her mother called and told her to go the emergency room. Just the day before, 21-year-old Emily had visited her family doctor for a checkup. She'd been feeling tired for a few months. At first she th...

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Surviving Stage 4 Lung Cancer

A little pain and a routine checkup with her primary care physician in mid-July 2015 led to an unexpected journey for Margaret "Peg" Miller of Lamar, Missouri. When visiting with her internal medicine doctor, Erik Miller, DO – who also is her son –...