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The new weight-loss drugs and cancer
What patients and doctors need to know when it comes to the popular new injections and pills

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

Winning the Battle Against Smoking: A Digital-Medication Approach
From the Bricker research group, Public Health Sciences Division

Fred Hutch launches free AI-powered chatbot app to help people quit smoking
QuitBot uses evidence-based strategies developed from over 20 years of research by smoking cessation experts at Fred Hutch

Smoking cessation trial for American Indian and Alaska Native people funded
Digital intervention to focus on ethnic groups with ‘highest rates of commercial cigarette smoking’ in the U.S.

Striving for the summit of Kilimanjaro
How 20 biotech leaders — and two Fred Hutch faculty members — are tackling a mountain and cancer at the same time

Hutch trial will test new app to help teens stop vaping
Smoking cessation expert to adapt adult quit-smoking app for kids under 18; pilot trial will test its efficacy in 200 self-consenting teens

Science Says: Renew, refocus, reduce risk
Lowering risk of cancer through the science of prevention

Hopes and predictions for 2022
Hutch researchers look ahead to an increase in cancer screening, improved vaccines and greater trust in science

In research and cancer care, Indigenous representation matters
Fred Hutch, UW researchers work to reduce risk and inequities and improve access to care, resources for Indigenous communities and patients

Fred Hutch eyes the future of weight loss
Successful pilot study uses acceptance and commitment phone therapy to help people lose weight; new $3.7M grant will launch full-scale trial

Tip Sheet: Cancer health disparities, app to stop smoking, diversity in COVID-19 vaccine trials — and more
Summaries of recent Fred Hutch research findings and other news, plus resources for October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Fred Hutch-led clinical trial shows new smartphone app helps smokers quit
JAMA Internal Medicine study shows iCanQuit app, based on acceptance and commitment therapy, is 1 1/2 times more efficacious than National Cancer Institute QuitGuide app, based on US clinical practice guidelines

Improving apps to help cancer patients quit smoking
Fred Hutch cancer prevention researcher awarded $3.5M NCI grant to run randomized trial of smartphone health apps

Hutch gets $3.65M NCI grant to help people quit smoking using 'virtual therapist'
Innovative new 'conversational agent' is part coach, part chatbot and 100% in your corner

A 'historic victory,' say experts, as US raises age to buy tobacco, vaping products to 21 nationwide
Here's the scientific evidence for why this change will save lives — and what steps might be next