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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is the only place in the world that can offer patients proton, neutron, and advanced X-ray therapy — in short, every treatment option in the radiation oncology toolbox, including some that are only found here.

More than 90% of patients treated for cancer at Fred Hutch receive some form of radiation therapy. Advanced therapies using pencil beam scanning protons, intensity-modulated neutrons, and precision X-ray radiosurgery enable us to preserve healthy tissue while maximizing the impact on cancers.

Looking to the future, our radiation oncologists are untangling the complex interplay between cancer, the immune system, and the tumor genome to develop even more precise radiation oncology approaches to cancer care. On every front, our team is revolutionizing the role of radiation in cancer treatment to give patients and families more time together.

Your support is critical to fueling that effort. Your gifts have immediate impact by allowing leaders to deploy funds where they’re needed most. In addition to supporting research and treatment innovations, this can include helping to fund physicians and scientists who are addressing health disparities and improving access to care as well as through teaching and training programs that attract students and researchers from around the world.

From unlocking the potential of next-generation treatments to identifying better ways to match therapies to the unique biology each patient’s tumor, our radiation oncologists are pursuing breakthroughs that will enable even more patients to look forward to a full, life beyond cancer.

Join us in propelling this exciting research and advancing standards of care.

“Fred Hutch Radiation Oncology is bringing tomorrow’s cancer treatment to our patients today through our innovative research, elite training programs, and global outreach. Philanthropic donors have an essential role to play in filling mission-critical gaps to advance our approaches from the bench to the clinic.”

— Ramesh Rengan, MD, PhD, Peter Wootton Professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology, UW Medicine; professor, Fred Hutch