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Being in two camps — HIV and cancer research — at one time "made a huge, huge impact on me," says immunotherapy researcher Dr. Carl June.

It took a team of clinicians and years to get Andrew Adams to the other side of his life-threatening symptoms. Throughout it all, his beloved pet chicken Frightful kept his spirits up.

The road to a cure was not easy for Mike Rubin, who underwent a bone marrow transplant in 1987. But 30 years after the lifesaving procedure, this survivor and Fred Hutch fundraiser is celebrating -- and paying it forward so others can do the same.

Every year since its inception in the early 1980s, the Fred Hutch Long-term Follow-up Program sends out a detailed questionnaire to every transplant survivor. The answers to these questions inform a host of research topics on the long-term effects of transplantation, from graft-vs.-host disease to cataracts, from secondary cancers to infertility and sexual dysfunction.

For fourth year in a row, Fred Hutch/SCCA transplant rates among best in the U.S.; immuntherapy symposium available on video for those who couldn't attend the event

Good News: $475K gift fuels expansion of antibody technology; Dr. Hansen honored for BMT work; Senate passes 21st Century Cures Act, sends to Obama