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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 ...

What started out as a lump under Angela Hartung’s tongue has led the 62-year-old Bourbon, Missouri, resident to undergo surgery and several treatments for two different types of cancer in less than a year. With the help of compassionate and caring doctors, nurses and staff at the Phelps Health Delbert Day Cancer Institute (DDCI) in Rolla, Missouri, along with her ...

For Kan Huang, MD, PhD, MS, a Phelps Health medical oncologist and hematologist, becoming a doctor is something she has in common with many of her relatives who are around the same age as her. "My generation, including my younger brother and many of my cousins…we all got advanced degrees or went to medical school," Dr. Huang said. In fact ...