Archive for February, 2012
Can Diet and Exercise Prevent a Breast Cancer Recurrence?
After everything is finished with a breast cancer treatment, preventing a recurrence becomes a focus. Patients are prescribed medications to reduce chances it doesn’t happen again. There’s another idea in mind that may hold off a recurrence: losing weight. Cancer prevention researcher Kate Wolin, ScD, from our Siteman Cancer Center has a new study enrolling women with [...]
Research sheds light on heart transplant longevity
Nick Belfiglio was 55 when he had his heart transplant at Barnes Hospital. The hospital’s program had just started. Doctors hoped his transplant would buy Nick five more years of life. They undershot a little. Twenty-six years later, Nick is doing well. But don’t blame the doctors for underestimating, says Dr. Greg Ewald, medical director of [...]
MTS is one link in transplantation process
Editor’s note: Justin Phelps is a communications coordinator at Mid-America Transplant Services (MTS). He will guest blog periodically in 2012 to give our readers a better understanding of MTS and the services it provides. He may be reached at jphelps@mts-stl.org. First, we at Mid-America Transplant Services would like to thank our friends at Barnes-Jewish Hospital [...]
Paired kidney exchange gets people off the waiting list, back into living
Here’s a simple way to explain kidney transplant chains: In a kidney chains, a person who want to give a kidney to a specific kidney patient, but who don’t match that patient, gives their kidney to someone else whom they match but don’t know and who also has an unmatching donor so that the person they originally intended [...]
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