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City of Hope expands its Southern California presence with Pacific Shores Medical Group
In one of the largest clinical network expansions in City of Hope’s history, Pacific Shores Medical Group has joined City of Hope. The addition of the seven Pacific Shores locations...
Cancer care predictions 2020: The best is yet to come
Cancer care is changing rapidly, and the pace of change is accelerating. In 2019, major advances in precision medicine, gene-based therapy, immunotherapy and many other areas brought new hope to...
COVID-19: Coping with isolation and anxiety
Jeanelle Folbrecht, Ph.D. A pandemic has frayed the fabric of American life as entire cities stay home trying to flatten the curve of the novel coronavirus’s spread. Ironically, some who...
Booster shots for cancer patients? What you need to know
Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released their recommendation that certain immunocompromised people receive a supplemental dose of the COVID-19 vaccine — a “booster.” Here, we provide...
City of Hope nursing team earns prestigious magnet recognition
COVID-19 presented myriad challenges to City of Hope staff in the last year. But even during a pandemic, through the efforts of nurses, physicians and leadership, the institution achieved an...
City of Hope Leads First U.S. Clinical Trial of Aerosolized Chemotherapy
City of Hope surgical researchers are the first in the nation to open a clinical trial that could one day become an effective way to deliver chemotherapy to abdominal cancer...
After 10 Years on Bone Marrow Registry, Patient Finally Meets Her Match
Krissy Kobata After waiting and searching for over 10 years for a bone marrow match, Krissy Kobata, 40, was finally readying for her transplant when she faced another devastating blow...
Simon Bray: Beating the Odds
Multiple myeloma patient Simon Bray Simon Bray grew up around horses and horse racing. As a boy in Hertford, England, he eagerly embraced the "sport of kings" as a kind...
COVID-19: How seniors can cope; how the young can help
William Dale, M.D., Ph.D. “Mary,” a City of Hope patient and a 70-something grandmother from Beverly Hills, worries that the coronavirus and the calls to practice social distancing may actually...
COVID-19: Advice for cancer patients, survivors and caregivers
Sanjeet Dadwal, M.D. As the number of people infected with COVID-19 increases across the U.S., cancer patients are concerned about how this virus might affect them.   It is becoming...