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Surgery is the most effective single tool for treating cancer, and we’re continuing to improve it. Recent breakthroughs shift the order of treatment to shrink the tumor before its removal. Surgeons can then perform removal of disease more effectively with less impact on the patients’ functioning and quality of life.

Surgeons are vital to the multidisciplinary teams that are the gold standard in cancer treatment — often serving as the lead clinicians and coordinating input from the time of diagnosis. Our collaborative work and groundbreaking research are the goundation for the next generation of surgeons.

We are dedicated to recruting skilled surgeons, training future surgeons, and research that advances the future of quality health care.

Your support is critical to fueling that effort. In many cases, unrestricted gifts to a department can have the most immediate impact by allowing leadership to deploy funds where they’re needed most.

From improving surgeon training techniques to pursuing groundbreaking research that advances the quality of surgical care, we are committed to pursuing the next 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 Hutchinson Cancer Center and UW Medicine have a depth and breadth of expertise that is without peer among other major cancer centers.” 

— Douglas E. Wood, MD, FACS, FRCSEd, The Henry N. Harkins Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, UW Medicine