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In 2017, Bernadette Priestley was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. She was 37-years-old—and her two young children were just three and five years old.

Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute hosted its second annual patient reunion, bringing patients and clinical teams together to celebrate their journey to recovery after working with various therapy teams.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, aside from skin cancers. Treatment like radiation and chemotherapy can take a toll on the body, causing side effects such as fatigue, hair loss, and nausea.

All eyes were on Dana Boucher, 67, after he received his first dose of LUTATHERA®, a targeted radiation treatment, to treat his neuroendocrine cancer.

“There must have been a dozen people outside my hospital room at any given time,” Dana says. “Since I was the first patient at Saint Luke’s to undergo LUTATHERA therapy, doctors, nurses, and hospital administrators were all interested to see how I was doing.”