A new Fred Hutch study surprisingly finds that many drugs initially written off as ineffective on cultured cancer cell lines ...

A coalition of leading infectious disease and cancer experts is urging for the creation of a clinical trials network to evaluate the safety and efficacy of existing and new therapies for ...

Medical oncologist Shailender Bhatia, MD, the inaugural holder of the Lyn and Daniel Lerner Endowed Chair in Merkel Cell ...

Is our health system ready for multi-cancer detection tests? That was the question Fred Hutch's Dr. Scott Ramsey and others posed at a full-day Cancer Screening Intelligence for the Future symposium ...

Elizabeth Swisher, MD, who leads gynecologic oncology at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, was recently named the inaugural recipient ...

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 ...

Most cancer patients know that chemotherapy weakens their immune systems, putting them at risk for viral and bacterial infections. A month or two after chemo ends, however, most people assume their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Different autoimmune diseases affect different tissues, and they are caused by different underlying immune system defects. For example, in multiple sclerosis, the myelin sheaths that insulate nerves ...

When Don Stranathan’s left leg became swollen after a long day of shoveling granite for a buddy’s new bocce ball court, he didn’t think much of it. He even joked about it on Facebook. “Typical me, I ...