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Cancer journey takes turn down country road

Patient will perform country music Friday at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.

Mar 21, 2018

A memorial to Nancy Armitage

Former ICU nurse at UNMC remembered at her grandchildren’s elementary school.

Jan 23, 2018

Nancy Armitage

Lungs4Life donates to cancer center

Nonprofit organization is dedicated to raising funds for lung cancer research.

Dec 11, 2017

On Thursday, Dec. 7, Lungs4Life presented a $27,500 check to lung cancer specialists Drs. Alissa Marr and Apar Kishor Ganti for lung cancer research at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. Dr. Marr is holding the check on the right, while Dr. Ganti is in the white shirt to the right of Dr. Marr. They are joined by several Nebraska Medicine lung cancer survivors and Lungs4Life board members.

New cancer treatment to be offered at Nebraska Medicine

The FDA recently approved a new cell-based gene therapy to treat adults with certain types of relapsed B-cell lymphoma.

Oct 24, 2017

Julie Vose, M.D., left, meets with patient Amy Cheese, right.

Closing time for ORs at University Tower

Beginning today, University Tower surgical teams will begin operating at the new Fritch Surgery Center.

Nov 30, 2016

Curtis Hartman, M.D., and his surgical team during the last procedure in the University Tower's OR No. 10.

St. Baldrick’s head-shaving event Friday

Med Center’s pediatric doctors will shave their heads for cancer research.

Jul 19, 2016

Pediatric oncologist Don Coulter, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics hematology/oncology, getting shaved at last year's event.

After beating cancer, she aims to aid research

Janet Tinney and family are hosting an online fundraiser for the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center this week.

Apr 12, 2016

Janet Tinney, breast cancer patient at Nebraska Medicine

Nebraska Medicine performs first lung transplant

Operation is the first since launching the program in late 2015.

Feb 16, 2016

Lung transplant patient Phil Sauvageau, center, with Aleem Siddique, M.D., left, and Heather Strah, M.D.

Lung transplant program begins at Nebraska Medicine

The addition means Nebraska Medicine offers all solid organ transplants under one roof.

Nov 25, 2015

From left, Kaitlin Strom, whose late mother shown in framed photo was an organ donor, lung transplant surgical director Aleem Siddique, M.D., and Heather Strah, M.D., medical director of lung transplantation, at the announcement event Tuesday.

PBS focuses on med center’s medical-legal partnership

Staff members, Nebraska Medicine patients featured in PBS NewsHour report.

Sep 9, 2015

PBS NewsHour correspondent Jackie Judd reads books at the Lied Transplant Center with 5-year-old leukemia patient, Diego Salcido, and his older brother.