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How a Creighton connection saved an alumna’s life

April 30, 2025
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Emily Belden Bond and Christen Schulte Phelps

In 2023, a Facebook post from Iowa meteorologist Kevin Phelps about his wife, Christen Schulte Phelps, having breast cancer led former Creighton classmate Emily Belden Bond to discover she had Stage II breast cancer. Read more about how college friends reconnected during their cancer journeys.

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