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Jan 10, 2025 | 
fredhutch.org | Diane Mapes |Robert Hood
She also gave much of herself — not just to Fred Hutch and Cierra Sisters — but to other nonprofits and organizations, as well as her vast community network, which stretched well beyond the Pacific Northwest. It was not unusual for Hempstead, who lived in south Seattle, to hop on a cross-country flight to help a newly diagnosed friend of a friend, someone she’d never met, get the care they needed. But her advocacy efforts on behalf of underserved cancer patients weren’t just local. Or national.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
fredhutch.org | Diane Mapes
Nurse navigators help to streamline the process, Wagner said, making sure patients receive all the necessary testing and connect with all the proper clinicians. It’s a concept the organization first used at Fred Hutch at UW Medical Center – Northwest more than five years ago. “We started with nurse navigation for breast cancer patients in 2017,” Wagner said.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
fredhutch.org | Diane Mapes
Lobular tends to grow in lines, not lumps, thanks to a lack of a “cellular glue” known as E-cadherin, which is encoded by the CDH1 gene. Its web-like growth pattern makes it harder to find on physical exams and mammograms, especially in patients with dense breast tissue. “Many patients are unaware that ILC is hard to see on imaging,” said patient advocate Claire Turner, cofounder of Lobular Breast Cancer UK.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
fredhutch.org | Diane Mapes
Last Thursday, a tenacious “mom in tennis shoes” who went on to become Chair of the U.S. Senate’s powerful Appropriations Committee stopped by Fred Hutch Cancer Center for an update on its women’s health research. Sen. Patty Murray, senior Democratic senator from Washington state, toured labs and clinics, met scientists young and old, and learned about a new experimental therapy designed to prevent metastatic breast cancer.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
fredhutch.org | Diane Mapes
A few months back, good news hit the multiple myeloma community: the U.S. Food & Drug Administration voted to accept a new endpoint — MRD, or measurable residual disease — for accelerated approval of treatments for this cancer. What does this mean for myeloma patients? Everything, per Fred Hutch Cancer Center hematologist-oncologist Rahul Banerjee, MD, who treats patients diagnosed with this slow-growing cancer of plasma cells.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
fredhutch.org | Diane Mapes
OCOE’s program administrator for research operations Elizabeth Carosso gave an update on the Recruitment and Retention Shared Resource, created to help guide Cancer Consortium researchers toward more equitable trial design and outreach. “We know that when research studies include diverse participants, the results are more likely to be generalizable and applicable to the real world, which results in better outcomes for everyone,” she said.
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May 28, 2024 | 
fredhutch.org | Diane Mapes
The nation’s principal agency for cancer research and training, the NCI regularly reviews and updates its policies and prerequisites. In 2016, the NCI mandated its cancer centers fold in Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination (CRTEC) to build a pathway for researchers and clinicians; the same year, they asked centers to create offices of Community Outreach and Engagement, or COEs, to better connect with the communities each cancer center serves.
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May 23, 2024 | 
fredhutch.org | Diane Mapes
As with many cancers, there are different subtypes of skin cancer. Non-melanoma skin cancers like basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma (named for the skin cells on the top layer of your skin) are the most common cancers in the country, afflicting an estimated 3.3 million people per year. These cancers are very treatable and much less likely to metastasize, that is, spread to other parts of the body.
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May 9, 2024 | 
fredhutch.org | Diane Mapes
When they first envisioned an award to honor the care and kindness shown by nurses to their patients, the Barnes family thought five or 10 hospitals might be interested in participating. “Twenty-five years later, there are more than 6,500 health care facilities and nursing schools in 41 countries honoring nurses with the DAISY award,” cofounder Bonnie Barnes said in a recent video on the DAISY Foundation’s website.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
fredhutch.org | Diane Mapes
People worried about colorectal cancer may want to put those hot dogs and hamburgers on hold this summer. New research from a Fred Hutch Cancer Center collaboration with USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and published last month in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, quantifies the risk posed by eating red or processed meat. The collaboration also found two genetic mutations that, for those carrying them, make eating red and processed meat even more hazardous.
