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September 18, 2023

Many people who underwent a cancer screening were content to pass up an accompanying consult, a UW Medicine-led study found. 

(Vanessa Leroy/Bloomberg via Getty Images) US President Joe Biden speaks at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, US, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Biden's remarks on his administration's cancer moonshot, taking place on the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's "Moonshot" speech, are aimed at the goal of ending cancer.
September 14, 2022

In an address this week, President Joe Biden appealed to Americans to make

May 11, 2022

The finding supports theory that genetic differences between individuals and species can affect the acquisition of mutations.

April 1, 2022

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is a single, independent, nonprofit organization that is UW Medicine’s cancer program. 

February 10, 2022

Special effort is needed to promote screening among populations who have limited access to health services, the panel said. 

January 26, 2022

Machine-learning algorithms are shaving minutes off of some imaging scans and performing crucial triage for others.

May 18, 2021

Clinicians should selectively offer screening to adults 76 to 85 years of age. Clinician hope new guidelines will catch the cancer earlier in those under 50.

May 10, 2021

Imaging scans that incidentally detect masses – cancerous and benign – lead to follow-up appointments, costs and worry.

February 11, 2021

The assistive device was designed for procedures involving structures above patients’ shoulders.

December 31, 2020

UW Medicine team performs first-in-Pacific Northwest living-donor liver transplant for metastatic colorectal cancer.

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