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Tweeting to raise breast cancer awareness

By SCCA | Published: October 15, 2012

Click “Read More” below to view the story Breast Cancer and Mothers’ Health on Storify. Continue to watch the hashtag #SCCAbc on Twitter throughout the month of October for information about breast cancer from UW Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center & Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

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You don’t have to be 40 to get involved in breast cancer awareness

By Amy Poffenbarger | Published: October 4, 2012

Check this out: Super Kid: Taking charge against cancer is an article in the Everett Herald about Allison Holbrook, a young woman who organized a “Dig for the Cure” event at Lynnwood High School to benefit breast cancer research as her senior project. Allison shadowed her mentor, one of our co-workers here at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, for her [...]

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Breakthroughs in genetic testing for breast cancer

By Amy Poffenbarger | Published: September 27, 2012

On Monday The New York Times published an article entitled “Study Divides Breast Cancer Into Four Distinct Types” relaying information about a new study that was published this past Sunday in the journal Nature. Essentially, the research discovered four distinct types of breast cancer, each with their own “genetic changes that are driving many cancers,” the article states. This is [...]

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Tool helps target prostate radiation treatments now used on breast cancers

By Amy Poffenbarger | Published: September 21, 2012

Receiving radiation therapy is part of the treatment regimen for many cancers. SCCA radiation oncologists often use a device to assist them with prostate cancer radiation treatment called the Calypso system.  Calypso accurately aligns the prostate before each treatment and precisely monitors the position of the prostate during the treatment to avoid sending radiation to other parts of the body. The accuracy of [...]

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Roberts’ transplant raises awareness of alternative donor transplants

By Amy Poffenbarger | Published: September 19, 2012

USA Today recently ran an article about how television personality Robin Roberts is helping to improve the visibility of bone marrow transplantation. If you’ll recall, Robin was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, earlier this year. She is preparing for her bone marrow transplant this week. In the article, SCCA’s Dr. Colleen Delaney, director of the [...]

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