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Taking an active role in your care

Cancer Center’s goal is to do more than just provide medical care to every patient. Providers and staff strive to educate ...
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Lived experience matters: patient engagement improves cancer care, research

Patients and caregivers in the Patient and Family Engagement program provide crucial insights regarding the patient ...
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Dr. Heather Parsons to lead Fred Hutch’s breast cancer initiatives

Medical oncologist Heather Parsons, MD, MPH, witnessed how cancer affects the entire family when her younger sister was ...
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Dr. Jingyi Jessica Li named Donald and Janet K. Guthrie Endowed Chair in Statistics

When Fred Hutch offered Dr. Jingyi Jessica Li a biostatistics leadership role and an endowed chair, she saw it as an ...
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Tip Sheet: Expert insights into full-body MRIs and multi-cancer detection tests, breastmilk antibodies — and progress in AI for cancer research

Fred Hutch Tip Sheet includes expert insights into full-body MRIs and multi-cancer detection tests, breastmilk antibodies and progress in AI for cancer research ...
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Cancer centers launch Cancer AI Alliance to unlock discoveries, transform care using cancer data and applied AI

AWS, Deloitte, Microsoft and NVIDIA bring the latest in AI technology, coordination, and compute to the alliance and back with initial funding SEATTLE – Oct. 2, 2024 – Four National Cancer ...
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Conducting RNA reconnaissance

In biology’s standard tale of two acids — deoxyribonucleic (DNA) and ribonucleic (RNA) — RNA is merely the messenger. Its better-known cousin DNA plays the lead role, issuing genetic instructions for ...
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Patients’ own autoantibodies may hold key to boosting cancer immunotherapy response

A study published in Nature finds that some cancer patients can make their “own companion drug,” suggesting a potential template for future treatments SEATTLE — July 23, 2025 — A landmark study has ...
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The Beam: Going back to school after cancer, radiation therapy and fatigue, meet a program department coordinator

Many children look forward to returning to school in the fall, even if it’s only to see their friends. Others might suffer from anxiety. But for kids who have been through cancer or who are still in ...
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Fred Hutch leads new Vanguard Study for Cancer Screening Research Network

Study aims to understand the effectiveness and use of multi-cancer detection blood tests SEATTLE – July 15, 2025 – Fred Hutch Cancer Center is leading the newly launched Vanguard Study, a national ...
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Virologist and HIV expert Dr. Michael Emerman retires

During his 36-year career at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Michael Emerman, PhD, made fundamental discoveries about HIV, the retrovirus that causes AIDS. He and Fred Hutch evolutionary biologist Harmit ...
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New learning lab opens the door to careers in science

The pathway Helena Ochoa followed to her current job as a scientist at Pfizer started in a learning lab at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. Ochoa first came to Fred Hutch on a high school field trip with her ...