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Kidney Cancer Patient Stories
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- Edward Bandtlow
- Raymond Bebak
- Patti Callahan
- Shirley Danner
- Louis Della Penna
- Berch Harris
- Angela Fedele
- Nancy Finnegan
- Roger Grooms
- Paul Kobie
- William Krassan
- Ray Jastemski
- Howard Kulp
- Arlene Lepore
- Matt Lofland
- Ken Navatta
- Jack Pressman
- Joe Riehs
- John Roley
- Arkady Shteyman
- Tony Sundermeier
- Carolyn Tonic-Robinson
- Joe Weiss
- Arhonda Williams
- Daniel Wolfson
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Matthew Lofland
Kidney Cancer, da Vinci® Robotic-Assisted SurgeryAt 43, Matt Lofland worked out regularly to stay fit and active. So when he noticed some back pain on his left side, he didn’t think much of it. “I figured I just twisted my back when I was running,” he recalled. But the pain persisted, along with numbness down his left leg.
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Jack Pressman
Jack Pressman was diligent about having an annual physical exam. As the owner of a Minuteman Press, in Bala Cynwyd, PA, he could not afford to be sick. In 2009, when Jack and his wife Donna learned that his PSA blood work came back with elevated numbers, they grew concerned. PSA numbers often indicate a risk of prostate cancer. A second round of testing sent Jack to a urologist for a biopsy. That is when Jack learned he had prostate cancer that was localized (had not spread) which can often be cured with surgery.
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Joe Riehs
Working high above the Delaware River for the Port Authority is where Joe Riehs spends much of his time. He is a maintenance technician on the Betsy Ross Bridge, connecting Pennsylvania and New Jersey. It was on that bridge that Joe received the call from his doctor with the news. There was an 85% chance that the tumor found on Joe's kidney was cancerous.
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John Roley
da Vinci® Robotic-Assisted SurgeryIn the fall of 2007, John Roley went to his local emergency room complaining of severe stomach pain. He figured the pain was caused by a stomach virus. The doctors performed several tests, including a CAT Scan, which showed something suspicious on both kidneys.
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Arkady Shteyman
Kidney cancer is something Arkady Shteyman has lived with since 1968. That's the year, when Arkady was 19, that his father died of the disease at the young age of 44.
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