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Tough room: As the saying goes, dying is easy, it’s comedy that’s hard – particularly when it’s a sensitive subject
Deana Hendrickson (inset top) and her late mother Rita Stein (inset bottom) used gallows humor like this staged "mercy killing" as a way to deal with Rita's stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis. "It lightened her last days," Hendrickson said. Photos courtesy of Deana Hendrickson

Catherine Duggan, Ph.D., a principal staff scientist in the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutch, is the lead author of the first study to test whether taking vitamin D augments the considerable effect of weight loss on markers of inflammation. Photo by Bo Jungmayer / Fred Hutch file

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The shame, blame and stigma surrounding this deadly disease affects everything from patient follow-through to research funding
Janet Freeman-Daily, a metastatic lung cancer patient from Seattle, witnessed so much stigma after her diagnosis, she became a patient advocate.

New study shows teens turn to tobacco after using e-cigs (and another one shows they’re using them to vape pot, too)
Smoking cessation expert Dr. Jonathan Bricker said a new study about tobacco use in teens and young adults was well-designed and showed a powerful effect.
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Whether solving the mysteries of outer space or cancer cells, many major advances followed messy moments
Illustration by Kimberly Carney / Fred Hutch News Service
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