Fred Hutch Cancer Center | Strategic Alliance Partners

July 07, 2018

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD, director, University of Washington Medicine’s Genitourinary Cancers Program, associate professor, Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses ongoing trials in advanced bladder cancer.

June 06, 2018

Evan Y. Yu, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses how comorbidities factor into treatment choice for patients with castration-sensitive prostate cancer.

January 11, 2018

David Maloney, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, Division of Oncology, University of Washington, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses responses to the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell product JCAR017.

October 08, 2017

Lymphoma physician-scientist, leader and mentor made lifesaving contributions to the development of targeted cancer therapies.

April 08, 2017

Seth M. Pollack, assistant professor, Division of Oncology, University of Washington, and attending physician, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the future treatment paradigm of soft tissue sarcoma.

March 24, 2017

Elizabeth Swisher, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Breast and Ovarian Cancer Prevention Program, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the results of the ARIEL2 trial in patients in patients with relapsed, platinum-sensitive, high-grade ovarian carcinoma with a germline or somatic BRCA mutation.

February 03, 2017

Seth M. Pollack, MD, assistant professor, Division of Oncology, University of Washington, and attending physician, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the potential impact that radiomics could have on the treatment landscape of sarcoma.

January 06, 2017

The addition of PEGPH20 to standard nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine demonstrated improvements in progression-free survival compared with nab-paclitaxel/gemcitabine alone for untreated patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.

December 13, 2016

Seth M. Pollack, assistant professor, Division of Oncology, University of Washington, and attending physician, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the role of radiomics in the treatment landscape of sarcoma.

February 15, 2016

Renato G. Martins, MD, MPH, medical director, Outpatient General Oncology/Hematology, Thoracic/Head and Neck Oncology, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses patient selection for nivolumab (Opdivo) as a treatment for patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

December 15, 2015

When compared with the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) breast cancer guidelines, the corresponding prostate cancer guidelines fall short in one distinct characteristic—the lack of a molecular test in tissue-based platforms at this point in time.

December 01, 2015

As the class of agents targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway expands in non–small cell lung cancer, so does the potential population of patients who would be candidates for the groundbreaking immunotherapy.

August 07, 2015

The perception that cord blood is an inferior source of stem cells is simply not accurate and may result in delays in lifesaving treatment for patients.

June 16, 2015

The addition of PEGPH20 to standard nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine improved progression-free survival by 4.9 months compared with the two agents alone in untreated patients with advanced pancreatic cancer who expressed high-levels of hyaluronan.

January 28, 2015

Ten or 15 years ago, a diagnosis of advanced non– small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) led directly to a discussion of chemotherapy.

November 04, 2014

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is increasingly being recognized as a heterogeneous disease, with molecular features defining emerging subtypes. Understanding which tests to order in which cases can better direct care for our patients. Increasingly, panel testing has advantages over individual genetic testing.

June 19, 2014

Julie R. Gralow, MD, director, Breast Medical Oncology, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, clinical research division, member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Care Center, professor, Medical Oncology Division, University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses toxicities observed in the SWOG S0307 trial, which examined bisphosphonates as adjuvant therapy in primary breast cancer.

May 28, 2014

Although many patients with cancer now receive chemotherapy as outpatients, most cancer treatment centers do not extend this practice to patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or advanced myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) who are receiving initial intensive induction therapy.

May 01, 2014

Evan Y. Yu, MD, from Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the association of alkaline phosphatase with outcomes in chemotherapy-naive patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

March 28, 2014

The Long-Term Follow-Up (LTFU) Clinical Program at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) has expanded its scope of services to assist in the hands-on management of patients who develop complex conditions more than 100 days after their peripheral blood hematopoietic stem cell transplant procedure