Swedish-Affiliated Physicians Featured in KING 5 TV Special on Cancer Prevention
SEATTLE, June 5, 2007 -- On June 4 KING Television (channel 5; NBC) aired one of their "Healthlink: Cancer Free Washington" specials on cancer prevention. Titled “25 Things You Can Do To Prevent Cancer,” it featured interviews with the Swedish Cancer Institute’s Dir...
Swedish Cancer Institute Social Worker to Receive National Award from the American Cancer Society for Exemplary Care and "Warm Hand of Service"
SEATTLE, April 13, 2007 – Leah deRoulet, MSW, LICSW, a 20-year medical social worker with the Swedish Cancer Institute (SCI) and a resident of Issaquah, recently learned she is one of just 13 cancer-care providers from across the country to receive the 2007 American Cancer Society (ACS) Lane...
Swedish Cancer Institute Study Finds Patient-Detected Breast Cancer Has Higher Recurrence, Mortality Risk than Mammography-Detected Breast Cancer
SEATTLE, Feb. 7, 2007 – A recent study by Drs. Henry Kaplan of the Swedish Cancer Institute and Judith Malmgren of HealthSTAT Consulting Inc. found that patient-detected breast cancer appears to be a more virulent form of breast cancer than mammography-detected breast cancer with a higher ra...
Swedish Cancer Institute First in the World to Offer GPS for the Body to Assist with Precision-Guided Prostate Cancer Treatments
SEATTLE, Jan. 30, 2007 – Swedish Cancer Institute today announced it is the first cancer-care program in the world to provide prostate cancer patients commercial access to the Calypso® 4D Localization System for precision-guided radiation therapy delivery to the prostate with continuous, o...
Swedish's New Hereditary Cancer Program Helps Identify Who's at Highest Risk for Certain Cancers
SEATTLE, Jan. 24, 2007 – Imagine if a simple blood test could determine gene mutations and predict who in a family is most likely to develop cancer.That's now possible for some forms of genetically linked cancers and Swedish Medical Center in Seattle has established a new Hereditary Cancer Pro...
U.S. Cancer Deaths Drop for Second Year in a Row; Swedish Cancer Institute Executive Director Interviewed for Related AP Article
ATLANTA, Jan. 18, 2007 (Associated Press) -- The tide has turned in the nation's battle against cancer.Cancer deaths in the United States dropped for the second year in a row, health officials reported Wednesday, confirming that the trend is real and becoming more pronounced, too.In Washington...
Landmark Study Reveals that Lung Cancer 10-Year Survival Dramatically Improves with Annual CT Screening and Prompt Treatment
SEATTLE, Oct. 25, 2006 at 2 p.m. Pacific Time – Lung cancer can be detected at its very earliest stage in 85 percent of patients using annual low-dose CT screening, and when followed by prompt surgical removal the 10-year survival rate is 92 percent. These results, to be reported in the ...
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