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As a cancer researcher contends with lung cancer, immunotherapy plays a...
In 2012, Alan Herr, a cancer researcher, engaged in some macabre humor with his colleagues when he noticed his voice getting raspy and a gurgling sensation as he breathed. “That could be lung cancer,”...
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‘I’m just living my life’: SCCA patient won’t let Stage 4 breast cancer...
Lisa Newell knows she’s an outlier. It’s been more than 13 years since she was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, just five months after giving birth to her third son. Her middle son, Sammy, was 2...
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In ‘Lasting Love,’ a mother with a terminal diagnosis uses words and pictures...
Caroline Wright had just submitted the manuscript for her third cookbook when she started to feel strange. She was headachy and spacy, finding it hard to focus. At age 32, she chalked it up to the...
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In a vibrant art display, colorful DAISY wall honors exemplary nursing
How to depict the care and compassion that dedicated nurses show their patients? That was the challenge set before the artist who designed a 3D art installation for Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA)...
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Screening for pancreatic cancer in Seattle, where the protocol was developed
Dr. Mike Saunders (L) and Dr. Joseph Roberts discuss patient Vince Scott’s endoscopic ultrasound images. When Jeopardy host Alex Trebek announced in March that he had been diagnosed with pancreatic...
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At SCCA’s new Issaquah clinic, patients experience a shared model of care
When Lisa Newell was pregnant with her third son, a complication with her placenta landed her on bedrest for a month. After she gave birth, doctors assumed that the pain she felt in her sternum and...
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An ‘insurance policy’: SCCA’s Oncoreproduction Clinic helps people with...
Chenault* had a lot to look forward to as last summer approached. With her MBA from Yale in hand, she had landed a job in Seattle as a management consultant. Before making the cross-country move, she...
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During Patient Experience Week, patients and caregivers say connection...
Steve Lovell Steve Lovell treasures the infusion receptionist’s smile. Laurel Rech appreciates that her daughter’s oncologist always addressed her 12-year-old first when walking into the room, making...
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Tackling the stigma of seeking medical care during Minority Cancer Awareness...
When Michael Rankin’s shoulder started hurting him two years ago, he didn’t hesitate to get it checked out. First he was referred to physical therapy. Then when the pain didn’t decrease, he got an...
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‘He calmed me down.’ Dr. Jesse Fann joins 56 SCCA physicians in Seattle...
The day that Deborah Przekop was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2010, her head started spinning. It didn’t stop until she met Dr. Jesse Fann, a psychiatrist at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance...
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Colon cancer is on the rise in younger people
Colon cancer has long been considered an older person’s disease. The average age at diagnosis is 68 for men and 72 for women. Drew Griffin So when Drew Griffin was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer...
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Visions of a ‘shared community’ inspire SCCA leaders to partner with Ugandan...
Kathleen Shannon Dorcy, Rose Nankinga, a pediatric nurse at Uganda Cancer Institute, and Arlyce Coumar (L to R) In Uganda, nursing degrees focus on midwifery. The concept of an oncology nurse doesn’t...
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‘Catching things early’: SCCA’s lung cancer screening program finds and...
Karyn Budnick-Haug’s lung cancer was detected early through SCCA’s Lung Cancer Screening program. Ten years ago, Karyn Budnick-Haug went in for a colonoscopy and left with the knowledge that she had a...
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Volunteers are the engine behind SCCA’s retail stores
Ellen Nottingham, SCCA volunteer and former patient How do you thank someone for saving your life? Ellen Nottingham has had two years to ponder that question. Diagnosed in the spring of 2016 with...
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For the sixth time in a row, SCCA beats expected one-year survival rates for...
When Ted Ave’Lallemant was diagnosed with leukemia in 2005, his oncologist in Wisconsin suggested he seek a second opinion at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. His doctor had heard about the Fred Hutch...
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CAR T-cell therapies advance the possibilities of immunotherapy at SCCA
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) has been a leader in developing and advancing immunotherapy for cancer since our founding. Today, we are one of the first cancer centers in the U.S., and the only...
View ArticleProstate cancer survivor: ‘SCCA saved my life twice’
Chris Pearce, a prostate cancer survivor at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, tells how SCCA saved his life twice: once through radiation therapy to treat his prostate cancer, and again to treat the...
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Lymphoma patient: Immunotherapy clinical trial ‘a miracle’
Research has given me my life back. I have always felt that for someone like me — considered incurable — to get a miracle with modern medicine, it would come in the form of participating in a clinical...
View ArticleSeattle singer with breast cancer enriches and uplifts community
Bridgette Hempstead is a force of nature. In 1996, Hempstead refused to take “no” for an answer after a Seattle-area doctor told her not to worry about getting a mammogram. She knew something was...
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When no scents make sense
Jeff Permuy When I came to SCCA for the first time, I was reassured by the sign next to the elevator that read, “This is a Fragrance Free Facility.” Most people probably don’t realize the significance...
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