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Structural and clinical barriers keep 3 of 4 cancer patients from participating in trials
‘Patients are willing to participate in trials if they’re offered one’
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
Dr. James Dai receives $2.1M NCI grant for cancer biomarker research
Biostatistician plans to use funds to develop statistical models to further precision cancer prevention and treatment
Dr. Yingqi Zhao receives SWOG Coltman Fellowship early-career award
She plans to use the funds to develop new surveillance and diagnostic strategies for immunotherapy trials
Finasteride can reduce prostate cancer risk long term
Fred Hutch study taps big data to tease out extended cancer-prevention benefit of drug used for enlarged prostate, hair loss
Good News: NCI awards Dr. Ruth Etzioni 5-year grant to fill gaps in cancer-recurrence data
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
Childhood cancer survivors pay more for health care, more likely to be denied insurance coverage
Adult survivors of childhood cancer suffer from ‘financial toxicity’ decades later, a study conducted at the dawn of the Affordable Care Act found
Good News: CBS 'Sunday Morning' to feature Dr. Jim Olson's Tumor Paint research this weekend
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
Chance of surviving childhood cancer has improved — but survivors’ overall health has not
In large study of childhood cancer survivors, self-reported health remained constant or declined for patients treated in recent decades
Common genetic disorder linked to increased death rate from cancer drug
Researchers recommend ‘caution’ when using the chemotherapy busulfan in patients with Gilbert’s syndrome
Good News at Fred Hutch
Celebrating faculty and staff achievements
Low-fat diet reduces risk of breast cancer and subsequent death
Women’s Health Initiative study indicates benefit to low-fat, fruit and veggie-rich diet
Progress in ‘precision prevention’ for colorectal cancer
New risk prediction model — not yet ready for clinical use — incorporates genetic, lifestyle and environmental risk factors
Tracking the rise and fall of Ebola in Sierra Leone
Study pins numbers on outbreak’s devastation, interventions that worked
Cancer clinical trials: In defense of the negative result
Large cancer clinical trials that ‘fail’ carry just as much scientific oomph as positive findings, new study shows
Fred Hutch, UW biostatistics ‘giant’ Norman Breslow dies
World-renowned public health researcher saved lives, inspired young scientists
Good News at Fred Hutch
<p>Dr. Peter Nelson to lead $1M study of metastatic prostate cancer; more than two dozen Hutch researchers to present at largest statistical conference in North America</p>
Good News at Fred Hutch
Dr. Jim Olson's Tumor Paint advances to clinical trial for children with brain cancer; Dr. Li Hsu delivers annual Prentice Lecture; Dr. Jesse Bloom receives Burroughs Wellcome award
The paradox of PSA screening for prostate cancer
New study forecasts population impact of discontinued testing
Michael LeBlanc named new head of SWOG statistical group
LeBlanc, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, oversees design and analysis of SWOG’s 100 cancer clinical trials