We Always Look for Yes
At Duke Health, we embrace bold challenges with unyielding optimism. The biggest issues present daunting hurdles, but the future we envision is worth fighting for, and history has shown us that determination, creativity, perseverance, and teamwork can achieve things that were once thought impossible.
We relentlessly seek solutions, overcome and learn from obstacles, and turn possibilities into realities. We are undeterred by setbacks and are always looking for the path forward. Because at Duke Health, we’re inspired by possibilities, and we’ll find a way to get to yes.
How Duke Research Turned Failure Into Hope for Patients With Breast Cancer
The discovery in the lab of Duke cancer pharmacologist Donald McDonnell of a new drug treatment has changed the lives of thousands of patients of a type of breast cancer. The decade-long research behind the drug is exemplary of the benefits of the historical partnership between the federal government and universities in supporting biomedical research. It also shows the singular role universities play in developing treatments that can be brought to market.
Alzheimer's Disease: The Long Haul
Few challenges in medicine are more daunting, or more important, than Alzheimer’s disease. That’s exactly why we have embraced this challenge, and why we will not rest until we succeed.
Saving Two Lives with One Heart
Duke Health is one of the nation’s leading transplant centers; we perform over 400 life-saving congenital heart surgeries annually, with shorter wait times and better survival rates for heart transplants than the national average. In recent years, Duke’s heart surgeons have pioneered a series of breakthrough heart transplant procedures, giving new life and new hope to children and adults who would otherwise have had no options.
Reaching New Heights in Cancer Care
Patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) are usually treated with surgery and radiation, even though it may not develop into invasive breast cancer. Dr. Shelley Hwang recently presented a study suggesting that active monitoring could be an equally effective and less aggressive option for many women.
Living Liver Donor and Robotic Liver Transplant Surgery Save Baby
When baby Kara Pace needed a liver transplant, a friend of the family stepped up to donate part of her liver. After undergoing the first robotic liver transplant surgery at Duke Health, baby and donor are doing well.
New Hope for Bladder and Other Urothelial Cancers
Duke Cancer Institute is rewriting the narrative for patients with bladder and urothelial cancer by pursuing innovative combination therapy.
