• KMBC: Wisconsin Women Finds Hope At Saint Luke's After Stage 4 Breast Cancer Diagnosis

    • KMBC: Wisconsin Women Finds Hope At Saint Luke's After Stage 4 Breast Cancer Diagnosis

    In 2017, Wisconsin mom of two, Bernadette Priestley, was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. She was just 37 years old.

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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.

    When an oncologist in her home state of Wisconsin gave her a devastating prognosis, she turned to Dr. Timothy Pluard, medical director at Saint Luke’s Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer in Kansas City, for a second opinion.

    Today, after nearly 30 trips to the Koontz Center for treatment, Bernadette has no evidence of active disease. Bernadette and Dr. Pluard talked with KMBC about the importance of second opinions and advances in treatment that are allowing those with metastatic breast cancer to live longer.