In the News Archive

With a message of “Together, One Reason” the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine and KSDK/NewsChannel 5 will join forces at the 2010 Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure, Saturday, June 12 in downtown St. Louis for what they hope will be St. Louis’ largest Race Team.

While Washington University physicians at Barnes-Jewish Hospital pioneered the first successful procedure to treat atrial fibrillation in the ‘80’s, they are on the forefront in treating the irregular heartbeat with two procedures.

Kidney donors are likely to live as long as non-donors, research shows.

Colon cancer is considered by many physicians to be a preventable cancer.  To get out the message, Siteman Cancer Center is a sponsor of the annual "Undy 5000."

No one questions the images a CT scan gives physicians in seeing the inside of a patient’s body.  What is in doubt however, is the tie such scans have to cancer risk.

While Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgeries (VATS) made its St. Louis debut in 2005 with Traves Crabtree, MD. cardiothoracic surgeon at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, VATS at Barnes-Jewish will make its national debut on the Discovery Channel, which will feature Dr. Crabtree and the procedure, Saturday, March 6 at 7 a.m. on “Discovery Health CME.”

Nurses and staff from the Siteman Cancer Center infusion area showed their appreciation February 16 to a patient who came up with a creative way to help out friends who’ve helped him during a difficult cancer fight.

Often an uninsured woman in St. Louis experiences a delay in receiving care after discovering a change in her breast or being told she needs follow-up for an abnormal breast exam or mammogram.

Caleb Trent, MD, and Chet Schrader, MD, Barnes-Jewish emergency department residents talk about their aid trip to Haiti.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital has increased the volume of combined kidney-pancreas transplants performed by 80 percent in 2009.