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WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING FOR CANCER CARE

WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING FOR CANCER CARE

BY Andrea Mongler

Three billion is such a large number that it’s hard to fathom. To put it in perspective:

  • 3 billion seconds is about 95 years
  • If you took 3 billion steps, you could walk around Earth at its equator more than 45 times
  • Stacking 3 billion pennies would result in a tower nearly 3,000 miles tall

Three billion also happens to be the number of DNA building blocks, or base pairs, that make up a human genome. And nearly every single cell in our bodies contains two copies of those 3 billion base pairs.

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SAVING LIMBS TAKES TEAMWORK, TIME AND TENACITY

SAVING LIMBS TAKES TEAMWORK, TIME AND TENACITY

By Stephanie Stemmler

Noah was just six years old when he walked up behind someone mowing the lawn who didn’t know he was there. In an instant, as the lawnmower was backed up, Noah’s foot was caught underneath it, sharp blades cutting through skin, muscle and bone in his foot and toes. “They told us at the hospital that his foot might have to be amputated,” says Hingst. “We were in total shock.”

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Kamryn

Kamryn

On June 28, 2019, the life of Kamryn Dehn was about to change for the better. That morning, John Clohisy, MD, a Washington University physician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, performed extensive surgery on Kamryn’s right hip, putting an end to more than 10 years of pain and suffering due to developmental dysplasia.

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ROBOTIC SURGERY BENEFITS LIVING KIDNEY DONORS AND RECIPIENTS

ROBOTIC SURGERY BENEFITS LIVING KIDNEY DONORS AND RECIPIENTS

BY PAM MCGRATH
IMAGE COURTESY OF BARNES_JEWISH HOSPITAL

When used to perform living-donor nephrectomy—the removal of a kidney from a living donor for transplantation into a recipient—a robotic surgery system offers a number of benefits. For example, the donor’s stay in the hospital may be shortened and recovery may happen more quickly.

Though many such donation surgeries already are being done using a minimally invasive procedure that offers living donors similar benefits, the robotic procedure allows for additional improvements.

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THE RHYTHM OF LIFE: CHRONOTHERAPY AND CANCER CARE

THE RHYTHM OF LIFE: CHRONOTHERAPY AND CANCER CARE

BY ANDREA MONGLER

Wake, sleep, repeat. Day in, day out. It’s a pattern we’re so familiar with that most of us give it little, if any, thought. The sleep-wake cycle is simply one of life’s daily rhythms. In fact, it’s one of our circadian rhythms. Put simply, circadian rhythms are physical, mental and behavioral changes that our bodies experience over a 24-hour cycle. They affect our sleep, our body temperature, our appetite, our hormones and more. And it turns out these daily rhythms may play a key role in cancer treatment.

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