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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A Fred Hutch Cancer Center study shows maternal antibodies in breastmilk help newborn mice develop immune tolerance, offering ...

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 ...

Bisphosphonates are popular bone-targeting drugs. Older people take them to prevent and treat osteoporosis. Breast cancer patients, particularly those with metastatic disease, take them to prevent and ...

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 ...

A blackboard hangs in the office of bone marrow transplant pioneer Rainer Storb, MD, in Fred Hutch Cancer Center’s South Lake Union campus in Seattle. That board is where many of the lifesaving ...

Zinc’s immune-boosting properties are well-established, but we’re still untangling how it works. In a new study published in late March in the scientific journal Blood, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research ...

The COVID-19 pandemic made plain what many patients, clinicians and researchers have known for decades: people with weakened immune systems are much more vulnerable to infectious diseases. But ...