Posts By: Julie Flanery

Years after a Mid-South woman thought she’d beat cancer, doctors delivered devastating news. The cancer that originally appeared in one of her eyes had moved to another part of her body. Without an aggressive plan of attack, the cancer could kill her. Now, a medical breakthrough is improving those odds. Every six weeks or so,… Read more »

“The Cancer Support Community sees that immunotherapy is greatly impacting how we treat cancer, with marked advances in the treatment of lung, melanoma, genitourinary, hematologic, head and neck cancers, and more,” said Kim Thiboldeaux, CEO, Cancer Support Community. “This is why we are so excited to work with our pilot partners to improve the experience… Read more »

The latest version of the NCCN breast cancer guidelines incorporates the use of genomic expression profiling to assist in adjuvant treatment decision making in women with hormone receptor (HR)– positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. Genomic profiling has been found to successfully predict the benefit of endocrine therapy, as was demonstrated in the TAILORx study, said Lee… Read more »

At first, Sauphia Lanning thought she might just ring the bell by herself. “I’m not a big ‘let’s come celebrate me’ type of person,” she said. But then she thought of everyone who had checked in on her and prayed for her as she battled cancer over the past nine months. She thought of her… Read more »

The words “You have cancer” have a devastating effect on patients and their families. The diagnosis throws them into a previously unknown world of tests, treatments, and more tests. Once patients have gone into remission and are hopefully cured, they try to go back to their lives and put their cancer experience behind them. Given… Read more »

The Mississippi RiverKings’ staff and players made a Valentine’s Day visit to the patients and members of the West Cancer Center. Established in 2014, the non-profit ogranization solicits grants and donations to broaden innovative research and cancer treatment programs for adults. The University of Tennessee/West Institute for Cancer Research focuses on four areas of research such as: Drug… Read more »

The University of Memphis women’s basketball team spent several hours Monday afternoon at the West Cancer Center in Germantown, Tenn. Players, coaches, and additional athletic support staff took part in activities at the WCC. “The first thing that it shows us is that West Cancer Center is an amazing facility and the great job they… Read more »

The partnership between Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Corp. and the West Cancer Center has taken another step forward. The Methodist Breast Center and The West Clinic Comprehensive Breast Center have officially consolidated into the Margaret West Comprehensive Breast Center. The merger was set in motion in September of last year, after Jack and Betty Moore… Read more »

Brain Cancer patients in the Mid-South now have a promising new treatment method at West Cancer Center. Optune™, a portable device using low intensity electric fields to inhibit cancer cell replication causing death of cancer cells, is the first FDA-approved therapy in more than a decade to show a significant extension in overall survival rates… Read more »

When the West Cancer Center cut the ribbon on its 123,251-square-foot facility dedicated to oncology care and research earlier this month, it marked the opening of a facility focused on research and treatment, as well as patient convenience. Patients at the new center will be able to, for example, have all the treatment modalities they… Read more »