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Melanoma Awareness Month: More Than Skin Deep Skin Cancer Special

As part of Melanoma Awareness Month, The Local Show takes a closer look at an under-estimated killer: Skin Cancer. In this hour-long, live special, viewers will have the opportunity to speak with dermatologists and medical experts.

There will be more cases of skin cancer diagnosed in the United States this year than all other cancers combined. Kansas and Missouri have two of the 10 highest state death rates from melanoma, according to a 2010 EPA study.

On this special edition of The Local Show, KCPT partners with the producers of the national public television documentary, More Than Skin Deep, to tell the story of skin cancer. During this one-hour special you’ll also have a chance to speak to area dermatologists in the KCPT phonebank to address your own medical concerns. And we’ll take your calls with a panel of medical experts live on the air.

Joining Nick Haines in the studio:

Dr. Gary Doolittle M.D.
University of Kansas Cancer Center

Dr. Glenn Goldstein M.D.
Dermatology & Skin Cancer Center

Kelly Klover
Outpacing Melanoma Foundation, Founder


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Women and Girls Lead: Monica Steiner

As part of a series called Women and Girls Lead, we will be share profiles of females from all walks of life who inspire us with stories of resilience, hope and empowerment. We begin with Monica Steiner from Olathe.

This week on The Local Show, we introduce a new series of features called Women and Girls Lead in which we profile females from all walks of life who inspire us with stories of resilience, hope and empowerment. The series, created for the web and TV, is a collaboration between KCPT and the Independent Television Service. We begin by introducing you to the story of Olathe resident Monica Steiner who is battling Stage 4 breast cancer and fighting to save the lives of others through her IronTeam fundraising efforts for cancer research.

Woman wearing a hat sitting in a chair receiving chemotherapy

Catch more of our Women and Girls Lead profiles in future editions of The Local Show. The series features five women and girls from Kansas City.

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In Good Times and In Bad: Anna Graether & Greg Schultz

Guest Host Ryan Lefebvre sits down with Greg Schultz and Anna Graether to discuss the challenges and triumphs in their fight against breast cancer.

When Greg Schultz discovered a lump on his chest in 2007, he had a difficult time believing it could be breast cancer. The marathon runner had no family history and was the picture of health. The lump continued to grow. More than a year after he found the lump, he got the breast cancer diagnosis.

Earlier this year, the unthinkable happened and Anna was also diagnosed with breast cancer. The chance of a woman having breast cancer is one in eight. For men, the chance is one in a thousand. The odds of a husband and wife both being diagnosed with breast cancer are mind boggling, but that’s what happened to Anna Graether and Greg Schultz of Kansas City, Mo.

Guest Host Ryan Lefebvre sits down with Greg and Anna to discuss the challenges and triumphs in their fight against cancer.

Both Anna and Greg received treatment at the Breast Center
at St. Joseph Medical Center. For more information about the couple, read the article which appeared in the Fall 2011 edition of Carondelet Health’s magazine Health Wise here.

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