Stories tagged 'Cancer etiology - prevention - outcomes'
Move more and sit less for cancer prevention and survival: new HHS guidelines
Recommendations include being active for at least 150 minutes, or two hours and 30 minutes, per week
Nov. 13, 2018 | By Dr. Anne McTiernan
An overview of the latest physical activity guidelines released Nov. 12 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Breast Cancer Research Foundation funds 8 Fred Hutch/UW Cancer Consortium scientists
Nearly $2M will go toward potential therapies for metastatic disease and better risk reduction through diet and exercise
Nov. 9, 2018 | By Diane Mapes / Fred Hutch News Service
Researchers in the Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer Consortium received grants totaling nearly $2 million from the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, or BCRF, funding that will continue to fuel their research through 2019. Most of the grants will go toward new therapies for patients with metastatic cancers.
Tags: Anne McTiernan, Breast Cancer, cancer consortium, Cancer etiology - prevention - outcomes, Clinical Research, Cyrus Ghajar, Good News, Human Biology, Julie Gralow, metastatic breast cancer, Nancy Davidson, Nora Disis, Peggy Porter, Public Health Sciences, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA), Thomas Kensler, Tumor specific translational research
Squelching ovarian cancer: the not-so-silent killer
The search continues for new biomarkers, better outcomes and, yes, cures for this deadly disease
Sept. 17, 2018 | By Diane Mapes / Fred Hutch News Service
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, but Fred Hutch researchers are working year-round to find ways to detect the disease early and shut it down for good. Read on for a handful of ovarian cancer research highlights.
Tags: Amanda Paulovich, Angelina Jolie, biomarker, Canary Foundation, Cancer etiology - prevention - outcomes, Charles Drescher, genomics, gynecologic oncology, immunotherapy, Jason Bielas, M. Robyn Andersen, Molecular basis of cancer , Nicole Urban, Ovarian Cancer, proteomics, Public Health Sciences Division (PHS), t cell therapy
Washington’s Andy Hill Cancer Research Endowment awards $1.5M to 3 Fred Hutch researchers
Scientists will use funds to expand research in graft-vs.-host disease, chemoprevention and cancer immunology
Sept. 14, 2018 | By Jill Christensen / Fred Hutch News Service
Three Fred Hutch researchers recently were awarded a total of $1.5 million from the Andy Hill Cancer Research Endowment, a public-private partnership that supports cancer research in Washington.
H. pylori test hints at risk factor for stomach cancer
Pilot study suggests specific strain of bacteria may be found more often in East Asian patients with stomach cancer
Sept. 12, 2018 | By Sabrina Richards / Fred Hutch News Service
A pilot study by Dr. Nina Salama at Fred Hutch hints that carrying a specific strain of H. pylori could be a risk factor for stomach cancer in East Asian patients.
Parsing the deadliness of prostate cancer
Fred Hutch researcher zeroes in on biomarkers to better predict aggressive form of the disease
Sept. 4, 2018 | By Diane Mapes / Fred Hutch News Service
Prostate cancers are not all the same. Some are extremely aggressive: They can and do kill. Others are slow-growing and don’t kill: Men die with them, not of them. How can doctors and patients discern which one is which? Fred Hutch's Dr. Janet Stanford believes she may have found a way.
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