Former Lawrence resident Debbie Meyer, 54, in her Lenexa home a year after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Both her hair and self esteem have returned.
Debbie Meyer's hair was just beginning to grow back, slowly when this photo was taken early in 2006.
Dr. Marilee McGinness in a Kansas City hair salon minutes before she had her hair cut to a quarter inch long for her friend Debbie Meyer.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital pathologist Mike Thompson watches as Dr. Marilee McGinness, assisted by her nurses, removes lymph nodes at the base of a woman's breast. Thompson will take the node to the nearby lab and in short amount of time report whether the lymph node tests positive or negative for cancer cells.
Lawrence surgeon Marilee McGinness reaches for a clamp during an operation to remove a malignant breast tumor.
Dr. Marilee McGinness' brown gloved hands are in sync with the instruments during the process of removing a cancerous breast tumor.
The surgery is nearly complete; Dr. McGinness is closing an incision beneath the patient's breast.
LMH pathologist Mike Thompson returned from the lab with evidence that a tumor and some lymph nodes just removed from a patient, were cancerous.
Just minutes after leaving a LMH operating room, McGinness takes a call from her office on her cell phone.
Dr. Mark Praeger and Dr. Marilee McGinness are surgeons and partners in their Lawrence practice. They are in the physicians lounge at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, talking, before they head for operating rooms.
Cancer patient Debbie Meyer, right and her friend and surgeon Dr. Marilee McGinness embraced in Meyer's kitchen last November when McGinness showed up with a very short haircut. Meyer who had undergone breast surgery and was being treated with chemotherapy was having a hard time after losing her hair and had herself, just returned from a hair salon to cut her hair. McGinness's haircut was her message to Meyer that hair or no hair had no bearing on love and friendship.
Debbie Meyer, left, who was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer and at the same time, losing her hair, came home to find her surgeon and friend, Dr. Marilee McGinness, with a newly sheared head. Meyer was distraught about losing her hair and McGinness had her head nearly shaved to show her that love and friendship don't waver because of hairdos.
Six months after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Debbie Meyer, right and Dr. Marilee McGinness got together at Meyer's house in Lenexa. Their hair was growing back after Meyer's fell out as a result of her chemotherapy treatments and McGinness had her's cut in sympathy of her friend and patient. Meyer had 8 rounds of chemotherapy and 33 radiation treatments during her battle with cancer.
