Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
former cancer treatment and research center in Seattle, United States
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) is a cancer treatment and research center in Seattle, Washington. Established in 1998, this nonprofit provides clinical oncology care for patients treated at its three partner organizations: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Children's and UW Medicine. Together, these four institutions form the Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium.
On April 1, 2022, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center merged to form Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, a unified adult cancer research and care center that is clinically integrated with University of Washington (UW) Medicine and UW Medicine's cancer program.
Overview
SCCA provides a variety of cancer treatments, such as bone marrow transplantation, surgical oncology, radiation oncology, proton therapy, immunotherapy, and palliative care, among others. SCCA survival rates for some forms of cancer such as lymphoma exceed national averages. Biospace reports that SCCA is one of fifty-one centers certified for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy, a type of treatment that engineers a patient's own immune cells to attack cancer cells.
In 2015, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported that SCCA employed 1,200 people, and treated more than 7,000 patients from around the world. That same year, SCCA researchers performed more than 200 clinical trials, investigating 48 different forms of cancer. In 2017, SCCA treated more than 38,000 patients, deriving most of its revenue from outpatient care.
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