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Read Time: 2 Minutes Bruce Southard has been a smoker for the past 40 years, and he estimates that he smokes about half a pack of cigarettes per day. The 64-year-old Rolla resident is considered a heavy smoker, and because of this, Bruce has a high risk of developing lung cancer, the third most common cancer in the US. Already ...

Read Time: Two Minutes The Phelps Health Delbert Day Cancer Institute (DDCI) will celebrate five years of service to patients on January 9, 2022. “In the fight against cancer, the five-year mark is significant,” said Division of Medical Specialties Executive Director and DDCI Director Jeremy Stinson. “For many, the five-year mark is an indicator of a major victory against cancer ...

Read Time: Three Minutes Did you know that except for skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer found in men? In 2017, the most recent year that data was available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 207,000 new cases of prostate cancer were reported among men. In Missouri, there were about 3,400 cases reported ...

Read Time: Three Minutes Bob May first noticed there was a concern when he looked in the mirror one day and noticed his jaw was slightly swollen. He already had a scheduled appointment with his dermatologist, and after the two discussed options, Bob went to see Brian Kriete, MD, an ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist with Phelps Health. Bob ...

Getting cancer was one of Sally Arft’s biggest worries in her life. Unfortunately, her worst fear came true in 2018, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer after discovering a lump. “When I found it, I wasn’t too alarmed about it,” said Arft, a 74-year-old Salem, MO, resident. “One time, it felt like it was there, and the next time ...

Read Time: Two Minutes Ivana Harris’s first encounter with cancer was in 1987 when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and received chemotherapy treatments at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO. Around 2017, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and treated by Christopher Spencer, MD, medical director of radiation oncology and radiation oncologist, at the Phelps Health Delbert Day Cancer ...

Hair loss is a side effect of chemotherapy that makes an already stressful and emotional situation even more difficult. Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia (CIA) is consistently ranked as one of the most feared side effects of chemotherapy treatment. For patients with solid tumors, such as breast, ovarian, colorectal, bowel and prostate cancers, a new treatment available at Phelps Health Delbert Day Cancer ...

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: 2 Minutes Three Things to Know Pat Guill, an 82-year-old Rolla resident and former Phelps Health employee, discovered a lump during a self-breast exam. She promptly scheduled a mammogram at the Phelps Health Comprehensive Breast Center, which led to her breast cancer diagnosis in April 2023. Following her diagnosis, Pat underwent radiation treatments at the Phelps Health Delbert ...

Read Time: 3 Minutes David Baker, of Steelville, Missouri, is thankful for an important visit to his Phelps Health cardiologist 2 years ago. David, who is 69 and has a history of heart issues, was experiencing shortness of breath. His cardiologist, sensing something wasn’t right, sent him to have X-rays and a cardiac catheterization procedure, which involves guiding a thin ...