Noted diabetes researcher Adolfo Garcia-Ocaña, Ph.D., has joined City of Hope as the new chair of the Department of Molecular & Cellular Endocrinology within the Arthur Riggs Diabetes &...

Gastric, or stomach, cancer is relatively rare in the United States, striking about 27,000 people each year, accounting for less than 2% of all cancer cases.  But gastric cancer is...

In the early 1980s, City of Hope patient Paul Edmonds went to a bar in San Francisco regularly after work, and often cried. Edmonds recalled reading the obituaries of many...

City of Hope scientists have developed a remarkable new antibody with the unremarkable name M5A. It can precisely target the antigen CEA, a marker expressed by many types of...

Glioblastoma is a virtually incurable brain cancer with a five-year-survival rate of only 10%.    “It’s heartbreaking to keep telling people in clinic that we don’t have a cure,” said...

When Alberto Pugliese, M.D., was a teenager in his hometown of Trapani, Sicily, he was overweight and quite fond of sweets. Especially doughnuts. “I’d get them every day!” he...

The best way to treat cancer is to prevent it in the first place. City of Hope Orange County is making groundbreaking strides in cancer prevention and early detection that...

Marie Palomino ignored the knot on her neck for nearly a year. Until she couldn’t. Traveling through Europe in June 2022, the 64-year-old interpreter and public school teacher began to...

Unlocking the genomic mysteries of cancer — that’s the lifelong passion that has driven the career of Stephen Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H.  He’s the Eva and Ming Hsieh Family Director’s...

When Luzmila Salazar learned she had cervical cancer, she felt like her life was crumbling around her. “It was the worst thing I’d ever heard,” said the 43-year-old mother of...