Thanks to generous donors like you, we have:
What if cancer could be…
Discoveries by our cancer researchers and specialists are already resulting in longer, healthier lives for many patients.
With your generosity we can rapidly transform cancer from a life-threatening diagnosis into a preventable, treatable condition. Will you help us outsmart cancer?
Photo caption: After losing her mother to breast cancer and facing breast cancer herself, Kristi Blair (photographed) became a tireless advocate for breast cancer research, including for the development of cancer vaccines at the UW Medicine Cancer Vaccine Institute.
You Can Help Us Outsmart Cancer
Give todayThanks to generous donors like you, we have:
Developed a vaccine shown to reduce the risk of certain breast cancer recurrence by more than 50%.
Developed a test for Merkel cell carcinoma that reliably detects the recurrence of this aggressive cancer at its earliest stage.
Made discoveries in immunology, microbiology and infectious diseases which led to preventions and cures for virus-caused cancers, including cervical cancer and many head and neck cancers.
Your support helps us outsmart cancer by accelerating promising research, providing exceptional care and training the next generation of cancer specialists.
What makes us a smart investment?
UW Medicine brings together our region’s top cancer researchers and specialists in multidisciplinary teams to care for patients and do cutting-edge research. We are proud partners of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, along with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Children’s and, as a leading academic research institution, we share the latest discoveries with the broader medical community to benefit all patients worldwide.
Our patients are benefiting today from the cancer treatments of tomorrow. Because we do both research and patient care, we can rapidly apply the latest discoveries in cancer research to help our patients live better, longer, healthier lives.
We’re addressing the systemic inequities that increase cancer risk and mortality among underserved communities. This includes research on disproportionate cancer mortality rates and projects to increase cancer screening in underserved populations.
Making cancer treatable, even avoidable: that’s what Kristi Blair, a mother of five, wants, too. And she and Dr. Nora Disis hope it might happen over the next decade.
A pilot project seeks to work with Black women to improve breast cancer screening rates and save lives.
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Dr. Ramesh Rengan and his team are pioneering a new way to use radiation and immunotherapy to destroy tumor cells — even those you can’t see — and permanently cure cancer
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Philanthropists, UW alumni write new chapter in sarcoma care and research with a landmark gift
In this interview with the “mother of cancer vaccines,” Dr. Nora Disis, MD, shares how her team is getting cancer vaccines into clinical trial, fast.
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UW alumni create the Kyle Charvat Foundation to help young adults with cancer cover treatment expenses.
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Colleagues and friends honor Dr. Eduardo Méndez through a new cancer research endowment.
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Making cancer treatable, even avoidable: that’s what Kristi Blair, a mother of five, wants, too. And she and Dr. Nora Disis hope it might happen over the next decade.
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Scientific excellence and a foundational gift combine to create a Cancer Vaccine Institute
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A family remembers a loved one while supporting groundbreaking research in Merkel cell carcinoma.
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When oncology nurse Judy Koh died of breast cancer, her many admirers decided to pay tribute — through a research fund.
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Jamie Crase’s life was interrupted by ovarian cancer, a particularly deadly condition. Then she met UW Medicine oncologist Liz Swisher, M.D., who has dedicated her career to battling the disease. Share:
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What takes a nutritional supplement into the realm of medical research? The short answer: a study at the Institute of Translational Health Sciences (ITHS), based at the University of Washington. This study, on an herbal product called resveratrol, is only one among many supported by the ITHS. The institute gives researchers access to mentoring, training, […]
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I’ve wanted to be a scientist as long as I can remember. It’s truly incredible how fast our understanding of human biology, health and disease has moved in the past 60 years, and it’s exciting to be able to develop new methods and to see them deployed at scale, both here and elsewhere in the […]
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The cure for cancer will come in the form of immunotherapy; that much we know. In this episode of UW Medicine Pulse, find out how it works and how close doctors and researchers are to making it available to you and your family. Plus a deep look into prevention and comprehensive treatments. Share:
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Not all cancers are the same. Not all treatments are one-size-fits-all either. Meet the researchers at UW Medicine who have developed new and innovative genetic tests that help target the right therapy for each individual patient, making treatment much more precise and effective. Share:
Read MoreCancer doesn’t have to be a life-threatening disease. Our scientists and clinicians are closer than ever to making cancer a preventable, treatable condition. But they can’t do it without your generous and visionary support.
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Gynecological cancers (uterine, vaginal, ovarian, cervical and vulvar cancers)
Kidney cancer
Lung cancer
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