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New Science Spotlight Articles
Every month, Fred Hutch postdoc writer/editors summarize two papers from each of our scientific divisions to stimulate collaborations across campus
September 16, 2019
Earlier detection for a deadly lung disease
'To have your life-threatening cancer cured, and then to die of not being able to breathe? It’s devastating.'
Poor quality of life in 1 in 5 caregivers of bone marrow transplant survivors
Largest-ever study IDs risk factors, paves way for interventions to help
What’s new in combatting chronic graft-vs.-host disease
Decades after the development of bone marrow transplant, researchers are making headway against one of its most common and deadly side effects
How cancer survivors are teaching researchers — even decades later
Tracking survivors long after treatment ends helps inform medical decisions for today’s patients and much more
How to survive the holidays with cancer
Researchers and patients offer tips on getting through the season after a diagnosis
'Pinktober': What Breast Cancer Awareness Month means to patients
Some see it as invaluable for education and advocacy while others, including male breast cancer patients, may feel left out
One family, two sides of cancer
Basic scientist Dr. Wenying Shou’s parents were both treated for — and cured of — their cancers. The similarities end there.
Beating cancer is only the beginning
From the Biobehavioral Sciences Program
The timing of aspirin use may improve survival time
From the Newcomb Lab, Public Health Sciences Division.
Love in the time of cancer — three couples find romance despite disease
Getting dumped after diagnosis isn’t the only story out there; meet three couples who found romance despite disease
The ‘cancer Olympics’: Why envy, rivalry exist among some patients
Survivors often compare their cancers — a normal yet potentially unhealthy exercise, experts say
Cost of survival: Coping with treatment complications beyond the cure
Treatment complications can impact lives for years after cure but some cancers survivors are reluctant to reveal their pain
The rooms that remain: Coping with grief after a child dies
Some parents grieve children lost to cancer by preserving precious spaces – their kids’ bedrooms
‘Finding their calling’: Cancer caregivers join larger cause after helping loved ones
Some family caregivers devote their lives to that larger work, shifting the health care landscape
Why some patients keep their cancer secret — and how oncologists guide them through that chosen seclusion
Why some patients don’t divulge their diagnoses — and how oncologists guide them through their chosen seclusion
Your post-cancer treatment sex Rx
Expert tips, tools and tricks to help you reboot your post-cancer body and rekindle intimacy after cancer treatment
The sexual aftermath of cancer treatment
From impotence to ‘chemopause’ to missing body parts, treatment side effects can mess with patients’ sex lives — why don’t we talk about it more?
Forgotten patients: New guidelines help those with head-and-neck cancers
Stigma, isolation and medical complexity may keep patients from getting all the care they need; recommendations aim to change that
Depression: cancer’s invisible side effect
Three in four depressed cancer patients don’t get enough help; survivors tell what it’s like to slip ‘down the rabbit hole’ — and how to climb back out
Kids like Rita: A doctor’s drive to save children from deadly blood cancers
Pediatric transplant pioneer Dr. Jean Sanders reflects on a lifetime of dedicated focus, all for ‘her kids’
Cancer is no laughing matter — or is it?
Tough room: As the saying goes, dying is easy, it’s comedy that’s hard – particularly when it’s a sensitive subject
Fertility after cancer: Young women less likely to be told about options
New study finds young male cancer patients twice as likely to be counseled on preserving fertility