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When to do what to reduce your risk of cancer
A handy decade-by-decade guide for recommended screenings and other preventive actions

Fred Hutch’s Dr. Ross Prentice retires
Longtime scientist and statistician contributed to Women’s Health Initiative, cancer prevention research and much more

Accuracy of hospital discharge data to identify pregnant women with disabilities
From the Mueller Group, the Division of Public Health Sciences

Immune response in colorectal cancer: What helps, what hurts?
GECCO collaboration drills into mechanisms of specific T-cell response to germline variations, lifetime exposures and tumor environment

Explaining the many kinds of research studies
Understanding the many types of research studies can help deflate overhyped reporting

Fred Hutch takes over cooking website for cancer patients
Cook for Your Life offers healthy recipes, how-to videos and new opportunities for research

Dr. M. Elizabeth ‘Betz’ Halloran receives Nathan Mantel Lifetime Achievement Award
Biostatistician honored for her landmark contributions to statistical methods for infectious disease epidemiology

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

Endometriosis linked to childhood abuse
New Fred Hutch collaboration highlights yet another poor health outcome associated with adverse childhood experiences

ASCO endorses integrative oncology guidelines for breast cancer patients
Yoga, meditation, acupuncture and more can be safely used to relieve side effects of standard treatment

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

When scientific hypotheses don’t pan out
Research studies are often built around an educated guess. What happens when those guesses are wrong?

Aspirin and its cousins linked to longer survival after colorectal cancer
Large study of preventive drugs for colorectal cancer survivors finds link to decreased mortality — but only for those with certain tumor genetics

Fred Hutch IT expert leaves legacy of learning for young public health researchers
Former Fred Hutch IT expert, whose own education was cut short, leaves funds used to establish an endowment to help young scientists continue theirs

Being pregnant — and diagnosed with cancer
Inaugural retreat explores painful issues, unanswered questions surrounding cancer, fertility and pregnancy

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

Zika virus: 6 key things we don’t yet know
From lack of data to inconclusive blood tests to the unique challenges of pregnancy, experts weigh in on the knowledge gaps in this emerging infection

Early detection efforts yield nearly $17 million
Awards fund network coordination and biomarker discovery, validation

Hutchinson Center researcher secures $7.9 million NCI grant for esophageal cancer research
Study to evaluate genetic risk for Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma