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The UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute is Arkansas’ most comprehensive cancer treatment and research facility. The institute’s staff of physicians, nurses, researchers, and other health care professionals are dedicated to improving the health of all cancer patients, both from Arkansas and beyond.
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Two of Arkansas’ most trusted names in health care are now delivering state-of-the-art cancer care together. Introducing the UAMS Baptist Health Cancer Center, conveniently located on the Baptist Health Medical Center – North Little Rock Campus.
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There are more than 100 types of cancer. Types of cancer are usually named for the organs or tissues where the cancers form.
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The most advanced radiation therapy for children and adults with cancer.
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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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