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Saint Luke’s Health System opened a new metastatic breast cancer center at its hospital in Kansas City. The Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer opened Thursday — National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. Funded by an endowment raised in the name of Paul Koontz, a retired breast cancer surgeon with Saint Luke’s, the center will be the first of its kind in Kansas City. Of Saint Luke’s cancer patients, 70 transferred in to the center after it opened.
Dr. Timothy Pluard, medical…