Update Magazine

When Michelle Reyes was diagnosed with breast cancer at 29, she and her Scripps care team vowed to beat it. Today she is cancer-free. Michelle was was so inspired by her radiation team at Scripps Green hospital, she hopes to become a radiation therapist herself.

Read about Michelle in Update magazine winter 2011 online version, and learn about ways you can support Scripps and make a difference.

Our winter issue also features stories about:

• Installation of the new cyclotron at Scripps Proton Therapy Center
• Heart disease and women
• Minimally invasive robotic surgery for bladder cancer
• The Conrad Prebys Emergency & Trauma Center

Other Scripps Health Foundation Publications

	Update Summer/Fall 2011 – Conrad Prebys stepped on a rusty belt buckle as a child, triggering a medical crisis that would lead to a heart infection and a year spent bedridden. In the summer of 2011, he made the largest gift in Scripps history, naming the Scripps Prebys Cardiovascular Institute. Read more and see video in the Update Summer Fall 2011 online version, and learn about ways you can support Scripps.
	Update Fall/Winter 2010 – Lester Tenney survived the Bataan Death March of World War II, and years as a prisoner of war. A heart procedure performed at Scripps helped Lester survive again. Read more in the Update Fall Winter 2010 online version, and learn about ways you can support Scripps.
	Update Spring/Summer 2010 – Read how Tricia Chandler is inspiring others with multiple sclerosis to better understand and live with the disease in Update Spring Summer 2010 online version, and learn about ways you can support Scripps.
	Update Fall 2009 – Read SDSU Aztecs basketball coach Steve Fisher’s story in Update Fall 2009 online version, and learn about ways you can support Scripps.
	Update Fall 2008 – Campaigns underway to support emergency and critical care medicine Update Fall 2008 (PDF, 2.4 MB)