A Walk to honor ALL Arkansas Cancer Patients
Be a Part of the Cure Walk strives to celebrate, honor, and remember all those touched by cancer. Survivors, check out our Growing Hope Zone at the Walk!
Survivor Information2026 Emcee
Lesley Murphy is a professional travel journalist and Arkansas native known for spending over 300 days a year documenting her adventures in exotic locations worldwide, from Finland to Bali. She initially gained public attention as a contestant on Season 17 of ABC’s The Bachelor.
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UAMS Employee Overcomes Breast Cancer, Highlights Importance of Yearly Mammograms
Treneica McKnight’s breast cancer journey began in February 2024 with a nagging thought about the mammograms she had missed.
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Patient Takes Steps to Prevent Breast Cancer
When she was in her 20s, Jennifer Freeman lost her beloved grandmother suddenly and vowed then to double down on her own health care. Unaware of any genetic risk factors, she asked about a mammogram and was told to wait until she was 40.
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A Voice Recovered: Physician Fights Larynx Cancer with Proton Therapy
When longtime Harrison, Arkansas, family physician Mahlon Maris, M.D., began experiencing hoarseness in late 2023, he chalked it up to a bad bout of COVID-19 and the lingering inflammation that can sometimes follow. But months passed, and his voice still hadn’t returned. It was the first sign that something more serious was going on. “I…
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Father’s Cancer Battle Inspires Son’s Research
When Don Tackett learned that he had prostate cancer, his first call was to his son, Alan. “It was difficult to hear,” said Alan Tackett, Ph.D., a leading UAMS cancer researcher whose life’s work collided with his father’s health that day. “I’m used to researching cancer, but not my father being a cancer patient,” said…
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