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AACR cancer progress report | Lung cancer follow-up | Top Doctors for 2023
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September 27, 2023 ⋅ A monthly digest of the latest from Fred Hutch
Cancer care: From ‘sledgehammer’ to precision cellular therapy <https://secure.fredhutch.org/site/R?i=xmNP0uWa-wWrhSGlZkcF6zKZpLJ5c5ReyBmwOJSl7iX83X8yJePvgA>
As always with cancer, the news is mixed.
The good news? Science has made great progress with immunotherapies for skin cancers like melanoma, as well as solid tumors like lung cancer which remains the deadliest cancer in the
country.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center’s Phil Greenberg, MD, president of the American Association for Cancer Research delivered additional good news: research has added years to patients’ lives.
“Progress in cancer research — particularly in the last two decades — has literally been breathtaking,” he said in an AACR video presented at a press briefing Wednesday. “When I started,
we treated cancers with what people might call a sledgehammer approach. We’re in an era now where we have drugs that precisely target abnormalities present in a patient’s tumor cell.
We’ve introduced an era of precision oncology.”
What does that mean for today’s cancer patients? Read about the AACR report <https://secure.fredhutch.org/site/R?i=kfRqnwuF8aULm5uoew1VZFkFPWhUE0khjQ5_n6qI0OqYYJhuh1yCeg> .
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Pictured above: Shane Hoffmann embraces the role of "head cheerleader" for Fred Hutch’s South Lake Union clinic.
Shane Hoffmann is the first person that many patients encounter when they enter the lobby of Fred Hutch’s South Lake Union clinic building. As a patient service representative, Shane
is an enthusiastic and empathic concierge — and an example of the Heart of the Hutch <https://secure.fredhutch.org/site/R?i=oBvhnlCDJWuo_3AT8RceP_d0IT4Y9LaWLnLPmDjLpln_S1MmgCc4rg> .
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The Latest
New Radiation Oncology Division takes shape <https://secure.fredhutch.org/site/R?i=Ye6IcshQLvilwhm3Ni6lK_pMfWF0O4qLfM81MsBOp3wXK8LrdoP9sQ>
In a Q&A, Ramesh Rengan, MD, PhD, outlines the strategy, mission and goals for research and care for the new Division of Radiation Oncology launched in July that he leads.
Fred Hutch clinicians named 2023 Top Doctors <https://secure.fredhutch.org/site/R?i=mApxgyAWiPsiTfO7CyfLD4nmAFyuq9YhzsfeipcVgI8n0_Q08LDa1A>
More than 90 physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners from Fred Hutch are included in Seattle Met Magazine’s 2023 Top Doctors list. Clinicians were recognized across
more than 20 practice areas, including in the specialties of hematology/oncology, breast, gynecologic oncology and cancer surgery.
Grant supports new population study <https://secure.fredhutch.org/site/R?i=E-Qe_3zjLNiOnWcPNN38G_FyGQTfYqrk_dFNdkigUsQLi2us7Bm-dQ>
Fred Hutch will act as coordinating center for large study of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases in Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations in the U.S.,
addressing a need for better data to inform scientific research.
Failure to follow-up leads to advancing lung cancers <https://secure.fredhutch.org/site/R?i=mkjIkwjiPya-hsRe-DgGCf1gX45FtHDhNysSOaA8gsg9hPQ5hnVp4w>
A new Fred Hutch study finds that nearly half of people with ‘positive’ lung cancer screening CTs had delays in their follow-up, advancing disease in some.
Wildlife photographer chooses proton therapy for prostate cancer <https://secure.fredhutch.org/site/R?i=p8wzzVyzHw4sWlyBIW6tzSUHNXnw6T3evxOR73dYRDa8w03VUf5TQw>
After active surveillance of prostate cancer for seven years, wildlife photographer Kevin Murphy required treatment and chose a plan that included proton therapy.
Endocrine Tumor Program launches survivorship clinic <https://secure.fredhutch.org/site/R?i=xvlQHEuiwFI9afTAkVN11YWMvHRl5-bMn4akx5no3wms9gxj934iRw>
Fred Hutch’s Endocrine Tumor Program launched a new survivorship clinic to provide long-term follow-up care for patients with thyroid cancer. It also serves those with other cancer-related
endocrine problems.
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Base 2 Space
Is October 1
Last chance to register for this amazing opportunity to climb the 832 open-air stairs of the Seattle Space Needle while fundraising for
Fred Hutch.
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