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A proposed cancer center in Redwood City would combine patient care and research. The city will receive a formal updated project description, and Stanford Medicine will host two community webinars.

With cancer research and care a top priority, Stanford Medicine’s leaders are charting a bold course to redefine how we understand, prevent and treat the disease.

With an investment of more than $1.29 billion, Stanford Medicine bolsters the local community’s efforts to improve access to food, housing, health care, mental health support and more.

Stanford Health Care commits $10 million to help the American Cancer Society build a new Hope Lodge to provide temporary lodging for cancer patients traveling to the Bay Area for treatment.

Stanford Medicine is the first in the world to introduce ultracompact proton therapy that will make the advanced targeted radiotherapy more accessible to patients.

Researchers are using diverse datasets and a low-cost AI tool to make melanoma detection more equitable and accessible for all.

A blood test predicts the tumor microenvironment that affects treatment response. Researchers at Stanford Medicine and the Mayo Clinic find nine cellular neighborhoods shared among most cancer cases.

Immune cells engineered to sense metabolic byproducts secreted by cancer cells ‘follow their noses’ to migrate to and infiltrate solid tumors in mice in a Stanford Medicine study.

Advances in cancer science, prevention and care