Sometimes, a cancer diagnosis creates a ripple effect felt by others. This is exactly what happened when Olieka Caudill, 38 of Wheelwright, was diagnosed. With a new baby boy, and young daughter at home, breast cancer wasn’t even on Olieka’s radar. While breastfeeding her infant son, Olieka discovered a painful lump in her breast the
The American Cancer Society reports that triple negative breast cancer accounts for about 15-20 percent of breast cancer diagnoses. This particular cancer can be more aggressive than the others and difficult to treat. Triple negative is also more likely to spread and recur. A diagnosis of triple negative breast cancer means that the three most
On Monday, May 6 Pikeville Medical Center (PMC) held their annual Nurse of the Year Ceremony. Thirty one nurses were awarded departmental nurse of the year recognitions and at the end of the evening PMC Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer Michelle Rainey presented the over-all 2019 Nurse of the Year to Alyssa Kidd,
Pikeville Medical Center (PMC) Primary Stroke Center Medical Director Naveed Ahmed, MD, accepted the Outstanding Achievement Award at the International Stroke Conference in Hawaii, on behalf of the hospital. Together, with American Heart/American Stroke Association Quality and Systems Improvement Director Cynthia Keely, they presented the award to CEO Donovan Blackburn and the PMC Board of
