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    Preventing and Recognizing Hypothermia

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    Learn the steps to protect yourself from extremely low temperatures, including preventing hypothermia and recognizing if you’re experiencing it.

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    How Healthy is Your Gut? A Functional Medicine Approach to Gastrointestinal Health

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    A healthy microbiome is the key to your overall gastrointestinal, metabolic, mental and neurological health. Meaning, if your gut isn’t healthy, then you likely aren’t healthy either.

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    Welcome to the AdventHealth Cancer Institute

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    The AdventHealth Cancer Institute Shawnee Mission is dedicated solely to fighting cancer and supporting cancer patients.

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    Ask-A-Doctor: Elizabeth Butler, DO

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    Elizabeth Butler, DO, is a Board-certified, fellowship-trained breast surgeon with AdventHealth Medical Group Breast Surgery at Shawnee Mission.

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    It’s the Dawn of a New Age for Cancer Treatment

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    AdventHealth Shawnee Mission is the area’s very first health care system to provide MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy.

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    Understanding Heart Disease and Colon Cancer - What's the Connection?

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    Understand the complex relationship between your heart and colon health.

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    5 Things Millennials Should Know About Colon Cancer

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    Colon cancer is still rare in millennials, but there are trends indicating it's becoming more common.

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    6 Cervical Cancer Myths

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    Each year, an estimated 14,000 people are diagnosed with cervical cancer, and about 4,000 die from the disease. We’re addressing common misconceptions about cervical cancer and encouraging women to...

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    Patient lives her best life while fighting cancer thanks to AdventHealth

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    Sylvia Peerson lives her best life while fighting cancer thanks to AdventHealth Cancer Center Shawnee Mission physician and nurses. Read more about Sylvia's story which was featured on Good Morning...