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This year, Fred Hutch Cancer Center turned the big 5-0 and celebrated all year long with stories highlighting the people and moments that have truly defined the organization. From groundbreaking ...
Medical oncologist Shailender Bhatia, MD, the inaugural holder of the Lyn and Daniel Lerner Endowed Chair in Merkel Cell Carcinoma, has dedicated his career to providing outstanding clinical care to ...
Elizabeth Swisher, MD, who leads gynecologic oncology at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, was recently named the inaugural recipient ...
Near the end of the classic 1942 movie Casablanca when Major Strasser is shot, Captain Renault famously pretends not to know who fired the gun and orders his officers to “round up the usual suspects.” ...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) has a high global impact as the second leading cause of cancer associated deaths. There are several preventive measures that can reduce your risk of developing colorectal ...
When Jenn Vehrs was 7 years old, she served as a bone marrow donor for her brother, who had acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
The Institute for Prostate Cancer Research (IPCR) is a collaborative effort between Fred Hutch and UW Medicine. Together, we are a team of more than 40 scientists and scientist-clinicians in multiple ...
The Community Cancer Care Report is a public report that shows clinic-level cancer care quality measures linked to cost. Featuring information on more than 25 clinics throughout Washington state, this ...
Leica Microsystems and Fred Hutch collaborated to establish the first Leica Center of Excellence, or CoE, in the Pacific Northwest. The Leica CoE establishes a mutually beneficial, collaborative ...
The Cancer Screening Research Network's (CSRN) primary focus is to reduce cancer-related illnesses and deaths by evaluating new and complex technologies that screen for cancer. The CSRN is a ...
The good news? Enrollment in new cancer therapy clinical trials has returned to normal, at least within one large trial network, a year after the pandemic began. The bad news? Normal trial enrollment ...
(Editor's note Oct. 3, 2024: Updates have been made to this story since original publication, including the addition of some cancer colors.) It’s anything but black and white. Amid a kaleidoscope of ...