Most pancreatic cysts are found incidentally during a CT scan or MRI done for another reason. The reason pancreatic cysts cause concern is that some types have a small risk of turning into cancer over time.
When Julie Kane’s infant son, Connor Okruhlica, needed a liver transplant in 1997, her family traveled from Kentucky to Omaha for the life-saving procedure. The family faced a difficult journey, but the kindness and generosity they experienced along the way left a lasting impact.
Receiving a breast cancer diagnosis is stressful enough without having to wait days or weeks for a specialist appointment. Nebraska Medicine | Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center provides same- or next-day appointments (SONDA) for patients recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
When Douglas Smith learned he had melanoma, he knew it was serious. “I was scared about the next steps,” Douglas says. “But from the first appointment to the last, it was really terrific.”
Mark Moore's journey with Erdheim-Chester Disease – a condition so rare that as few as 20 people are diagnosed with yearly – shows what can happen when a team of specialists work together to save a life.
Previous attempts to treat Christine’s Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) had failed. She participated in a clinical trial and subsequently went through a CAR T-cell transplant at the NCI-designated Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.
Researchers are seeing a significant rise in appendix cancer over the last decade, and not just in people over age 50. Gen X and Millennials are now at three to four times the risk when compared to a generation ago.
Cervical cancer is cancer of the cervix, which is the lower part of the uterus that connects to the vagina. The good news is that cervical cancer is one of the most preventable and treatable cancers when it is found early through regular screening.
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