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New cancer buildings to be named for CL Werner, Suzanne and Walter Scott
A groundbreaking was held today by the University of Nebraska Medical Center and The Nebraska Medical Center for the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. Major donors to the project were announced at the groundbreaking.
Med Center’s largest project to be named the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
The University of Nebraska Medical Center and The Nebraska Medical Center announced today that their cancer center project in midtown Omaha has a name: the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.
Surgeons Repair Complex Aneurysm Without Major Incision
Jamie Reynolds is a living, breathing reminder of why it's important to stay on top of your own health. The 78-year-old grandmother from Omaha says she always goes for an annual checkup. Her most recent one showed something she neither felt, nor expected – an aneurysm in her aorta.
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Cutting Edge Breast Cancer Treatment
KMTV
Marcia Shanahan of Omaha loves to take long walks in her quiet West Omaha neighborhood and travel. But last summer her world was turned upside down with the diagnosis that she had breast cancer.
Buffett Name (Not That Buffett) Going On Omaha Cancer Center
WOWT
The Buffett name is going on a new cancer center being built in Omaha, thanks to a relative of billionaire Warren Buffett.
UNMC cancer center to bear Buffett name
Omaha World-Herold
Omaha's cancer center will have an internationally known name, thanks to a multimillion-dollar donation by Warren Buffett's former family baby sitter.
Pediatric patients get hospital snow day
KETV
Imagine being a kid, seeing all that snow fall, and not being able to go outside and play in it.
Cancer survivor, heart patient reaches out to heart patients
KETV
Every Valentine’s Day and every week, a Bellevue man reaches outs to heart patients at the Nebraska Medical Center.
Male Breast Cancer Survivor Tells His Story
KMTV
Gary Sapp is not the type of person you picture when you hear the term "breast cancer". But in October 2010, Sapp got the health scare of his life.
Machine gives woman's heart a rest, helps her recover
Omaha World-Herald
She recovered, in part, because she was hooked to the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation machine that took over the work of her heart and lungs and let her body rest and reset.
Holdrege quadruplets beat slim odds
Omaha World-Herald
Rachel and Lee Woollen have plural miracles. Their quadruplets, Brett, Kaden, Parker and Cooper, just turned 5 years old.
Pioneering Pancreas Clinic
KMTV
The Nebraska Medical Center is pioneering a treatment for patients with a painful disease that affects thousands of people.
Cancer breakthrough shortens treatment time
KETV
A breakthrough for treating breast cancer cuts weeks off treatment time, allowing patients to get back to their normal schedules faster than ever.
24-year-old needs four transplants to stay alive
KETV
At just 24-years-old, Molly Pearce says she won't give up on life.She was born with Hirschsprungs Disease, a rare disorder in which parts of the large intestine have no nerves and cannot function.
Seizures And Pregnant
WOWT
Here’s an extraordinary story of a mother whose seizures began when she was expecting her first baby girl. She had more than 100 seizures and they never stopped, until now.
Hospitals Undergo Disaster Training
Omaha World-Herald
Hospitals know how to treat human misery, but responding when their own walls, rooms, employees and patients are threatened by calamity is another matter.
Nebraska man has surgery to gain weight
KETV
Imagine not being able to eat, no matter how hungry you are. It happened to a Nebraska man and he nearly starved, but a medical machine changed that and saved his life.
Man needing heart transplant stuns doctors when organ mends
Omaha World-Herald
Christy Crowe was mad. Mad at the circumstances. Mad at everything. She was even kind of mad at God. Weeks earlier, an infection had attacked her youngest brother's heart. He needed a transplant.

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  • Biopsy II
    Biopsy II
    A biopsy is a procedure in which a sample of tissue is removed from the...
    Biopsy I
    Biopsy I
    A biopsy is a procedure in which a sample of tissue is removed from the...
    Chemotherapy
    Chemotherapy
    The human body is made up of millions of cells that vary in shape, size...
    Breast Self-Exam
    Breast Self-Exam
    Far too often, breast cancer is detected after it has spread and affected other parts...
    Breast Cancer
    Breast Cancer
    The female breast is primarily composed of fatty tissue and mammary glands. Mammary glands drain...
  • Celebration Marks 100th Heart Transplant Performed
    The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC celebrated a significant milestone June 2, by pulling together patients, physicians and medical staff to mark the 100th heart transplant performed since the program was re-established in 2005.
    Heart Transplant Recipient Inspired to Volunteer
    When you see Eulish Moore walking the halls of the Cardiac Progressive Care Unit on the 7th floor of Clarkson Tower, it is hard to believe that little more than a year ago, he had accepted that he was dying.
  • Targeted Radiation Therapy Offers Options for Breast Cancer Treatment
    MammoSite therapy was developed to make it easier for more women to consider lumpectomy or breast conservation. Despite comparable long-term recurrence and survival rates of breast conservation therapy, the National Institutes of Health reports more than 40 percent of patients with early stage breast cancer still get a mastectomy.
    Father of Transplant Patient Also Gets New Heart
    Bruce Prenosil's word for 2009 is "Believe." A "believe" sign sits on his fireplace mantel. And wherever he goes, the word just seems to jump out at him. A bag appeared on his doorstep this month with the word "believe" printed on it. And while recently stuck in traffic, the license plate in front of him read, "BLV 2 RCV" (Believe to Receive).
  • Transplant Reunion Celebrates Second Chances
    Several hundred transplant recipients from across the nation will gather in Omaha to celebrate their second chance at life at The Nebraska Medical Center's 2009 Transplant Reunion. The reunion will be held on Saturday, July 25, 2009 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center.
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