Last year, Seattle’s Rivkin Center and Washington state’s Andy Hill Cancer Research Endowment (CARE) Fund joined forces to earmark $1 million in funding for ovarian cancer research.
This week, they began to dole those funds out.
Fred Hutch Cancer Center and UW Medicine researchers Holly Harris, MPH, ScD, and Elizabeth Swisher, MD, each received $200,000 from the organizations — nearly half of the dedicated $1 million fund — for new work to identify risk factors and promote better prevention for these often-intractable cancers.
According to the National Cancer Institute, ovarian cancer is the eighth most common type of cancer in U.S. women, but the fifth leading cause of cancer death. Symptoms can be subtle, often leading to late diagnoses after the cancer has spread beyond the ovary (or fallopian tube) to the lymph nodes or other organs.
