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    April 23, 2025
    Stanford Health Care and the American Cancer Society plan a Hope Lodge for patients and family members

    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.

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    April 30, 2025
    Student studies the cancer therapy that saved her life

    A months-long cancer battle at Stanford Hospital inspired undergrad Josie Fabian to pursue research on CAR T-cell therapy.

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    March 23, 2025
    Immune cell ‘bloodhounds’ track cancer cells’ unique metabolic signatures, eliminate tumors in mice

    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.

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    April 07, 2025
    Stanford Medicine opens new facility offering proton therapy for pediatric and adult cancer patients

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

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    April 10, 2025
    ARPA-H contracts fund Stanford Medicine research

    Four Stanford Medicine researchers have been awarded Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health contracts.

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    Immunotherapy January 23, 2025
    Unleashing the immune system

    Successes mount for cell therapies, marshaling the body’s bullies to fight cancer

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    Neurobiology January 23, 2025
    Dangerous infiltrators

    Cancer hijacks nervous-system signals — and scientists want to stop it

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    Cancer January 23, 2025
    Lifting the burden of cancer

    Advances in cancer science, prevention and care

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    Prostate Cancer August 29, 2025
    The next frontier for prostate cancer treatment

    Precision therapies and imaging are giving prostate cancer patients hope and light in their golden years.

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    Breast Cancer April 30, 2025
    New imaging technology helps Stanford Medicine surgeons reduce repeat breast surgeries

    Stanford Medicine breast surgeons are the first in the country to use a new technology that lights up cancer cells left behind when a tumor is removed.

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