Seattle Times examines partnership between Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Uganda Cancer Institute

Dec 20 2012

The Seattle Times examines a partnership between the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI). In 2008, "the two institutes formally agreed to collaborate on clinical care and research projects, and more recently a major building project at Uganda's only cancer-research center," the newspaper writes. Corey Casper, director of the UCI/Fred Hutchinson Research Center Cancer Alliance, "says [the partnership] has the potential to demonstrate 'that you can do first-rate research that can alter the impact of cancer care in the developing world, and that the craft of oncology can be practiced as well in Africa as it is in the developed world, just like it is with HIV,'" according to the Seattle Times (Silberner, 12/16).