Orange County Newsroom

April 18, 2025

Doctors and administrators at City of Hope Orange County said there is a great need for increased cancer research and access to medical treatment of the disease in O.C., and they planned to help meet that demand with the grand opening of the cancer specialty hospital, scheduled for later this year. One of the guests during a tour of the hospital under construction Friday was Jeff Fitzhugh, who is living with bone marrow cancer. City of Hope Orange County president Annette Walker, M.H.A., physician-in chief Edward Kim, M.D., M.B.A. and oncologist Josh Cohen, M.D., are quoted.

April 17, 2025

Patients with fewer prior lines of therapy had an improved overall response rate with chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy lisocabtagene maraleucel (liso-cel; Breyanzi) in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. City of Hope's Tanya Siddiqi, M.D., who presented the research at the European Hematology Association/EBMT 7th European CAR T Cell Meeting, explained, “What we did find was that if patients had lower numbers of prior lines of therapy... those patients seem to have a better overall response rate.”