Pages Tagged with "Patient Care"
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...