Researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center have discovered an overlooked mechanism driving aggressive breast and brain tumors ...

What's new in proton therapy? Read the latest news and views from Fred Hutch's proton therapy facility’s patients and providers in The Beam, published monthly.

Robert Redman has had many treatments for brain and spinal cord cancer in the past 17 years, including proton, gamma and ...

Dr. Eddie Méndez was a physician-scientist and cherished colleague at Fred Hutch who died of cancer in 2018 at age 45. An expert in head and neck cancers, Méndez was known for being passionate about ...

As we near the five-year mark since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare community is still wrestling with the psychological fallout of being on the frontlines of a global crisis. The ...

Although you’re probably not a virologist, chances are you know a thing or two about herpes simplex virus (HSV), which is estimated to infect roughly two-thirds of the world’s population and causes ...

Chronic graft-vs.-host disease (cGVHD) can be debilitating for people who have had an allogeneic stem cell transplant. In GVHD, the transplanted donor cells recognize the recipient’s tissues as ...

Vaccines are arguably one of the most important medical innovations in human history. When it comes to which diseases have successfully been targeted with vaccines, however, the playing field is far ...

Blood and bone marrow transplantation (also known as hematopoietic cell transplantation, or HCT) was developed at Fred Hutch nearly 50 years ago to cure leukemias and other diseases of the immune ...

Colorectal cancer can be treated using immunotherapy approaches that use the immune cells to target cancer cells and induce the killing of those cancer cells. Some colorectal cancer types have been ...

CAR T-cell therapy has revolutionized cancer treatment for B cell and plasma cell malignancies, turning patients’ own immune cells into cancer-fighting superheroes—but even superheroes can cause ...

If you have ever walked into a health store and stared at the rows of dietary supplements—each promising better health, more energy, or a stronger immune system—you are not alone. In fact, millions of ...