October 2009 - Volume 5, Number 1

In this issue:

• “I never felt like I had cancer”
• Thank you for being part of the City of Hope Difference
• Dynamic duo of drugs teams up to fight lung cancer
• City of Hope Singers bring music to the fight against cancer
• “I love City of Hope because...”
• FOX Sports joins with you to help cure cancer!

When you are 85 years old, it is not unusual to have medical issues that need to be addressed. That is why Kathryn Graves was visiting her doctor. She was being treated for a bladder condition, and her doctor had decided that surgery was necessary. But as he was x-raying Kathryn’s chest as part of her pre-op exam, the doctor suddenly noticed a black spot on one of her lungs. “We thought it was pneumonia,” Kathryn recalls. “He put me on drugs and we figured it would go away. But 10 days later, the spot was still there." Read more >>