Bob Shank Cancer patients often experience the lowest points in their lives before hope slowly begins to emerge.For 70-year-old Bob Shank, the lowest of the lows and highest of highs...

Growing up in Iran, hematologist-oncologist Salman Otoukesh, M.D., always knew he wanted to be a physician. Inspired by his father, a pediatric nephrologist and professor still working in Iran...

Physicians and scientists with City of Hope® presented data on potential new treatment options for blood cancers at this year’s American Society of Hematology (ASH) conference in San Diego, California...

In 2019, Paul Rudder, then 72, wanted to donate blood as he had done on a regular basis for many years. But when his blood was checked before donation, a...

Scientists with City of Hope® and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope, may have discovered one of the reasons why a type of leukemia sometimes...

Physician-scientist Pamela Becker, M.D., Ph.D., isn’t satisfied with today’s outcomes for people facing advanced blood cancers. And she has a vision for how to turn it around. Pamela Becker, M.D., Ph.D. “We have...

Sebastian "Diego" Serna is a happy, healthy 16-year-old with big plans. “I want to finish high school,” he says, “then go to college, study criminal justice and go into law...

“I thought I was Superman. I thought I had this big ‘S’ on my chest.” At 61, Larry Brito thought he was invulnerable. For 27 years, this Texas farm boy...

For many years, chemotherapy has been the standard treatment for most cancers. While these drugs are often effective, they can come with a host of side effects. Thankfully, City of...

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...