Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

SCCA Cancer News Watch

In Cancer Fight, Teenagers Don’t Fit In
The New York Times, 3/16/10
While overall survival rates are as high as 70 to 80 percent.... teenagers have not benefited from the huge advances in survival made by younger children and much older adults in recent decades.

ACS Says Let Men Decide on Prostate Screening
NPR, 3/3/10
The American Cancer Society says that men over 50 should consider the risks of treatment before deciding on prostate cancer screening.

Oral Cancer's Toll Cruel
CNN, 2/19/10
It brought a tough, All-Star NBA coach to tears this week. And it stilled the voice of a famous film critic.

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Spotlights

The Today Show features former SCCA patient Anna Robinson and the marrow donor who saved her life. Read more about Anna in the December issue of Self.

What You Don’t Know Might Kill You  A Newsweek article that interviews SCCA's Dr. Julie Gralow discusses the wide disparities in cancer diagnosis and treatment.

SCCA House is open and accepting patients and their families. Call (206) 204-3700 for reservations.

SCCA in the Media

Mercer Island Half Marathon for Colon Cancer Awareness
03-20-10 Join thousands of runners and walkers to help raise funds for Colon Cancer Prevention and the many charitable causes supported by the Foundation of the Rotary Club of Mercer Island.

Bozeman Deaconess Joins SCCA Affiliate Network
03-03-10 Bozeman Deaconess Hospital in Bozeman, Montana, has joined the SCCA Network to become the ninth Northwest community healthcare facility to enter into an affiliation agreement with SCCA.

The Power From Within
02-25-10 An Oregon man beat advanced melanoma—the deadliest of skin cancers—with nothing but his own cancer-fighting immune cells that had been multiplied in the lab. Read about this and other revolutionary immunotherapies in Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's latest edition of "Quest" magazine.

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