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Physician Documents his Cancer Survival, Grateful to Mayo Clinic

January 25th, 2013 - 1:03 pm

I am Dr. J. Kemper Campbell, an ophthalmologist from Lincoln, Nebraska. I noted a small asymptomatic mass on the right side of my neck in December 2006. When needle biopsy established it to be a poorly differentiated metastatic cancer of … Continue reading →

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Thanks to Mayo, My Survival and Passion for Softball Will Continue

October 20th, 2011 - 8:00 am

I will never forget the afternoon of January 31, 2011, when I was at my local health provider and received the devastating news that I had stage 4 throat cancer at the base of my tongue that had spread to … Continue reading →

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Robotic Head and Neck Surgery

February 4th, 2011 - 1:27 pm

Surgeons at Mayo Clinic have developed a new robotic procedure performed through the mouth (transorally) to treat cancers of the tongue base and tonsils. Mayo Clinic is one of the few medical centers in the United States offering this surgery, … Continue reading →

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