Why Choose SCCA?

Patients come to the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance from all over the world. They come to receive premier, patient-focused care. And they come to have access to the most advanced methods of cancer treatment, based on research conducted by world- renowned physicians at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, UW Medicine, and Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center.

These treatments include bone marrow transplantation. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, pioneered the development of bone marrow transplantation, which has proven to be a successful treatment for leukemia, lymphoma, immune system diseases, and other serious blood and genetic disorders. E. Donnall Thomas, M.D., was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1990 for his groundbreaking discoveries, which enabled successful bone marrow transplants.

Read more about Dr. Thomas click here.

To read about an international patient's experience, click here.

Another breakthrough therapy developed by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is the mini-transplant, an alternative for older patients and others who cannot tolerate the rigors of traditional bone marrow transplantation. The mini-transplant, also known as a non-myeloablative stem-cell transplant, is available through a phase II clinical trial. Read more about Mini-transplantation

Fred Hutchinson Research Center boasts another Nobel Prize winner: Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., president and director of the Center, who won the Nobel in 2001 for his discoveries on the regulation of the cell cycle, which is fundamental to all cancer research. Dr. Hartwell conducted much of his groundbreaking work at the University of Washington, another SCCA partner organization, where he is professor of genome sciences and adjunct professor of medicine.