Students in Smith-Cotton High School’s chapter of HOSA, an organization for students interested in health-care occupations, on Tuesday, Oct. 25 learned about cancers and some of their treatments from guest speakers Jason Sharp, director of Oncology Services at Bothwell Regional Health Center, and Janet Chance-Hetzler, a doctorate-prepared nurse practitioner at Bothwell.

Sharp discussed the pros and cons of some health-care careers and advances in immunotherapy. Chance Hetzler discussed the types and stages of breast cancer, how it spreads and survival rates.

Photos courtesy of Sedalia School District 200
Pic 1: Guest speaker Janet Chance-Hetzler, a nurse practitioner in the oncology care unit at Bothwell Regional Health Center, discusses types of breast cancer during a meeting Tuesday of Smith-Cotton High School’s chapter of HOSA, an organization for students interested in health-care occupations. Chance-Hetzler also explained the metastasis of breast cancer and the occurrence of breast cancer in men.

Pic 2: Jason Sharp, BRHC’s director of Oncology Services, tells Smith-Cotton students that Bothwell’s cancer care units are able to treat about 90% of the known cancers.

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