Stomach Cancer Research at City of Hope
April 28, 2025
This page was reviewed under our medical and editorial policy by Yanghee Woo, M.D., associate professor, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, City of Hope® Orange County Lennar Foundation Cancer Center.
Getting treated for stomach cancer at City of Hope means you’re steps away from labs where new treatments for cancer are being developed every day. That proximity means you benefit from something unique in cancer care — bench-to-bedside treatment, which means innovative research we are conducting in our labs is moved quickly to the bedside to treat our patients.
Stomach Cancer Research Projects
Our clinicians and researchers frequently collaborate to develop and evaluate new therapies designed to improve stomach cancer survival and quality of life.
Some of our current research projects include:
- Evaluating precision medicine options to tailor stomach cancer therapies to specific patients’ tumor cells
- Using radiation therapy combined with an immunotherapy drug called pembrolizumab to test whether the combination can work synergistically to fight advanced-stage stomach cancer
- Evaluating the effectiveness of monoclonal antibodies alone, or in combination with other drugs, in fighting advanced stage gastric cancers
- Using blood samples from patients or samples from extracted tumors to find biomarkers associated with stomach cancer, which may one day be used as a screening and diagnostic tool
- Assessing antibody directed positron emission tomography localization of the tumor to more accurately image gastric cancer
Stomach Cancer Clinical Trials
Stomach cancer is an extremely complex disease that can act many different ways in the body. Clinical trials at City of Hope — driven by patient-specific individualized treatment strategies — is focused on those differences, and on designing therapies that affect how stomach cancer develops, progresses and spreads.
Browse through some of City of Hope’s clinical trials and research projects.