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Every month, Fred Hutch postdoc writer/editors summarize two papers from each of our scientific divisions to stimulate collaborations across campus
August 26, 2019
Teasing out the association between oral contraceptives and breast cancer risk
From the Li Group, Division of Public Health Sciences
Fred Hutch announces 7 inaugural recipients of Dr. Eddie Méndez award
The award recognizes postdoctoral researchers in cancer biology who are from underrepresented minority groups
Bringing personalized oncology to cancer prediction — and prevention
Unique $2.4M NCI-NIEHS award teams Hutch cancer geneticists, epidemiologists and oncologists to use mutation rate to predict individual cancer risk
Cancer database for Washington state and national SEER registry renewed for up to 10 years
Fred Hutch’s cancer registry has been a mainstay of epidemiological research since 1974
It runs in the family
From Michelle Baglia, Christopher Li, Public Health Science and Peggy Porter, Human Biology divisions
Fred Hutch team receives $7.5M NCI grant to improve cancer screening
PROSPR II consortium aims to refine detection of cervical, colorectal and lung cancers
Lobular breast cancer comes into the research spotlight
Research collaborations, patient advocates push to explore ‘sneaky,’ understudied subtype’s standing as a distinct disease
Socioeconomic factors behind breast cancer disparities
From the Li Lab, Public Health Sciences Division.
Top cancer organizations make recommendations to erase health disparities
Four national organizations push for richer data, more inclusive research to better serve the underserved
Alcohol intake and risk of breast cancer subtypes
From the Li Lab, Public Health Sciences Division.
Good News: Mary Potts, Fred Hutch's Cancer Surveillance System guru, wins award for distinguished service
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
Good News: $8.8 million NIH grant; Evergreen Fund to accelerate commercialization of research; Hutch United co-chair receives fellowship
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
Drinking after breast cancer won’t raise mortality risk, study shows
Alcohol use after breast cancer doesn’t increase your chances of dying of the disease, new study shows, but it does increase overall cancer risk
Bras cause breast cancer? No support for that claim, Fred Hutch study finds
Population-based, case-control analysis should put internet rumors to rest, cancer experts say
Estrogen? Antidepressants? Black cohosh?
Fred Hutch researchers offer guidance to women facing the menopause muddle
Smoking linked with increased risk of most common type of breast cancer
Young women who smoked at least 10 years had a 60 percent increased risk
Long-term use of high blood pressure drugs associated with risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Calcium-channel blockers in particular are linked with significantly increased risk
Fred Hutch researchers to host cancer prevention symposium May 31
The symposium, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. In Pelton Auditorium, will seek consensus regarding effective cancer-prevention strategies for Washington state; Institute for Systems Biology's Dr. Lee Hood will be featured speaker