University of Kentucky Oncologist Receives Award

The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation and Hagyard Equine Medical Institute presented UK oncologist Jonathan Feddock, MD, with a check for $77,500 in proceeds from their event honoring the late hunter/jumper rider Betsy Fishback.
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The University of Kentucky (UK) Markey Cancer Foundation and Hagyard Equine Medical Institute presented UK oncologist Jonathan Feddock, MD, with a check for $77,500 in proceeds from their Sept. 19 dinner and grand prix show jumping event honoring the late hunter/jumper rider Betsy Fishback.

The money will go toward the creation of a centralized brachytherapy (an advanced cancer treatment) suite at the UK Markey Cancer Center, a mission Feddock has taken on through his "Ironcology" crowdfunding program.

Feddock, whose specialty is radiation oncology, is involved with the treatment of nearly every breast cancer patient who passes through the Markey Cancer Center for radiation treatment. In an effort to raise the necessary funding for a new brachytherapy suite, which would consolidate the phases of radiation treatment for breast cancer patients into one centralized location within the UK healthcare campus and update the equipment being used for such treatment.

“My mission through Ironcology is to raise funds to provide my patients with a facility in which they can receive the highest standard of treatment while incurring the least amount of inconvenience relocating from one phase of treatment to the next within the hospital,” explained Feddock. “I have proposed relocating all of the procedural and treatment areas into one combined area within the department of radiology and to purchase upgraded equipment to allow us to provide brachytherapy in a more precise and safe manner

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