Stories

A prostate cancer patient at UVA’s Emily Couric Cancer Center received a special farewell for his final treatment.

While looking at a routine scan, a UVA Health CT technologist felt something didn’t look right. Her attention to detail helped prevent potential disaster.

Bill Tricarico woke up one morning and couldn’t hear out of his right ear. What the doctors found sent him on a surprising journey in interventional neuroradiology that ended up saving his life.

In 2021, Fred Romine was the first patient to complete all four rounds of Lutathera treatment at UVA Health. Two years after his first interview about his experience with Lutathera, he …

Leslie Anderson, 40, is no stranger to the world of breast care. She trained as a radiologic technologist and MRI technologist at UVA Health, where she then worked for more …

Lutathera is a treatment that slows down or stops neuroendocrine tumor growth. UVA Health is one of the first hospitals in Virginia to offer this new radioactive drug. And Fred …

Uterine fibroids are a type of non-cancerous growth that form in the muscle cells of the uterus. They are common – some studies show that up to 80% of women …

UVA Children’s is one of the few places in the United States where contrast-enhanced voiding urosonography, or ceVUS, is used to screen for vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in children and infants. …

While finding breast lumps at any stage in life can be scary, young women may be especially unprepared to find breast lumps. Hallie Long was 23 years old when she …

The Emily Couric Cancer Center can be a tough place for staff to work and an even harder place for patients to be. Yet this team of caretakers found a way …