“I’m a runner,” Mika Reiner Mayer said to her surgeon. “If you can’t save my leg, don’t wake me up!” In a few short months, Mayer’s entire life had flipped...

City of Hope has officially opened its new five-story, 147-room hotel named in honor of Judy and Bernard Briskin.  Judy Briskin and her family recently made a significant gift to...

Lung cancer is the most common type of cancer worldwide. Around 240,000 new cases will be diagnosed in the United States this year, mostly among smokers. A growing number of...

A triple threat of COVID-19, influenza (flu) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is hitting our communities hard. RSV rates continue to climb in Southern California, and we still are battling...

“Hit me with whatever you’ve got, the strongest stuff you have!” So said Michael R.,* a determined 65-year-old businessman from Orange County, California, upon hearing he had pancreatic cancer. It...

Ask oncologist Adam Rock, M.D., why he became a physician, and the answer could be summed up in one word — people.  He joined City of Hope’s lung cancer...

Craig Cunningham believes in miracles. And not just because of his profession. “Pastor Craig” (everybody calls him that) leads the Shadow Rock Church in La Quinta, California. He believes in...

For years, the health risks of smoking have been well documented. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States, and cigarette smoking is linked to...

Pooja Manroa, M.D., has a warm, natural charm and the reassuring confidence of a highly skilled physician. She recently joined City of Hope’s newly expanded Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology...

For hematologist-oncologist Alexander Chehrazi-Raffle, M.D., the opportunity to join City of Hope and its renowned prostate cancer team has been something of a long, strange trip. When Chehrazi-Raffle was...