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We’re talking about how younger women and men can monitor for breast cancer and recent updates in screening guidelines.

This week during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re talking about metastatic breast cancer and Saint Luke’s Koontz Center—the region’s only center dedicated and designed specifically for these patients.

Melissa Magwire talks about why diabetes is a population health problem and a unique program at Saint Luke's that is helping patients across the nation.

The Koontz Center has cared for hundreds of patients with Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer since its inception in 2016.

KCTV talked to Melissa Magwire,RN, MSN, CDE, program director of the Saint Luke’s Michael & Marlys Haverty Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence, to learn more about the Cardiometabolic Center.

Mindy, a teacher in Blue Springs, has a family history of breast cancer, so it wasn’t a surprise when her doctor recommended she start annual mammograms at the age of 35.

Carmon is living with type 2 diabetes, but her life is much fuller now because of the care she received at Saint Luke’s Cardiometabolic Center of Excellence.

Saint Luke’s helped Luis Cordoba reclaim his life after diabetes diagnosis

When Maribeth Kammert first learned she had cancer in 2015, her world came to a stop. It was early stage breast cancer. “I was at Beauty Brands with my mom when I got the call. I went into the bathroom because I didn’t know how I would react. I didn’t cry,” said Maribeth. “I just had this instinct that I was going to take care of it, and God was going to take care of me. And if the outcome wasn’t what I wanted, I’d be okay with that.”

Sixteen-year-old Cheri Rich has sewn more than 200 drain bags for Saint Luke's mastectomy patients as a way to give back to other families who are fighting the battle against cancer.