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Read Time: 6 Minutes Stories of breast cancer usually start the same way: with a lump. That was unfortunately the case for Sarah Snelson, of St. James, Missouri, who discovered a lump while breastfeeding her youngest son. This latest change in her body came during a time of other major life changes. “I had a baby, built a house and ...

Hearing the words, “you have breast cancer,” can bring out a range of emotions. People may feel scared, overwhelmed and likely have questions. Breast cancer is the most common cancer found in women after skin cancer. The American Cancer Society estimates that about 287,850 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in women this year. Phelps Health Medical ...

Read Time: 18 Minutes Phelps Health Marketing Director Paige Heitman and Digital Marketing Coordinator Kayla Marsala talk with Kathy Harrison , an occupational therapist with Phelps Health Outpatient Therapy Services, about lymphedema on the Ask the Professionals radio show. Kayla Marsala: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Ask the Professionals radio show with Phelps Health. I am Kayla Marsala ...

Read Time: 3 Minutes Cervical cancer used to be one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in women in the US. However, thanks in part to more women getting Pap tests, or Pap smears, along with other medical advances, the rate of women being diagnosed with cervical cancer has dropped significantly in recent years, according to Wesley Harden, MD ...

Read Time: 4 Minutes While working one day in 2010 at the General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital at Fort Leonard Wood, Mary Jane Aufdengarten was at her desk and began feeling faint. “One of my coworkers took me to the ER [emergency room,] and a friend of mine came out and said, ‘Well, I didn't know you were diabetic.’ ...

Read Time: 4 Minutes Christopher Spencer, MD, MS, DABR, medical director of radiation oncology and a radiation oncologist at the Phelps Health Delbert Day Cancer Institute (DDCI), answers frequently asked questions about breast cancer. How common is breast cancer in the US? And in Phelps County? Breast cancer affects about one in eight women over the course of their lives ...

Read Time: 1 Minute Phelps Health is working with GRACE (Greater Rolla Area Charitable Enterprise) this fall to provide holiday meals to families in need. Phelps Health employees and volunteers were encouraged to donate nonperishable food items and/or donate money to purchase turkeys during the 12th annual “Basket of Thanksgiving” food drive, held October 11 through November 11, 2022. A ...

Read Time: 6 Minutes The earlier you can catch cancer, the more treatment options you have available, and that’s why screening is so important. Just as mammograms help detect breast cancer and colonoscopies help find colorectal cancer, lung cancer screening is a preventive tool to look for signs of lung cancer. Devon Griep, lung cancer screening coordinator at the Phelps ...

Read Time: 7 Minutes Lung cancer is the third most common type of cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the US. Thomas Guerrero-Garcia, MD, a board-certified medical oncologist and hematologist with the Phelps Health Delbert Day Cancer Institute (DDCI), discusses new approaches to lung cancer treatment. Traditional treatment and beyond At the DDCI, our cancer care team ...

Read Time: 3 Minutes Phelps Health held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new Emergency Medical Services (EMS) base and second helipad on October 12, 2022. The groundbreaking took place near the intersection of 13th and Powell Streets in Rolla, next to the Phelps Health main campus. During this event, the public heard from local and state dignitaries about the project ...