Heart & Vascular News

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.