What happens when we look beyond?
Since its founding in Seattle 50 years ago, Fred Hutch Cancer Center has led revolutionary efforts that harness the human immune system to treat and cure cancer.
Bone Marrow Transplants
We save millions of lives worldwide thanks to our discovery of bone marrow transplants.
Immunotherapy
We harness your immune system to put cancer in remission – and make it stay that way.
T-Cell Therapies
We discover T-cell therapies that track down and destroy cancer cells.
Breast and Prostate Connections
We uncover a genetic connection between breast and prostate cancers that saves lives.
Preventing Metastasis
We can kill dormant breast cancer cells, and prevent metastasis.
COVID Vaccines
We led the clinical trials that helped bring the world safe COVID vaccines.
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We are Washington’s only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center.
Survival rates can be improved by up to 23% when patients are cared for at a National Cancer Institute (NCI) comprehensive cancer center, like Fred Hutch. We are proud to have received this designation for our leadership in providing exceptional care combined with our depth and breadth of research, including substantial transdisciplinary research that bridges relevant scientific areas.
Recent Discoveries
New research may have cracked an important code in the quest to destroy dormant cancer cells so they never wake up. Co-led by metastasis researcher Cyrus Ghajar and immunotherapy expert Stanley Riddell, the research explains why the body’s natural immune system doesn’t eliminate disseminated tumor cells lying dormant in bone marrow or other sites and offers three potential T-cell immunotherapies that actually do.