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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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