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4 breast cancer treatment innovations to look for in 2024
As the newly appointed chief of the Division of Breast Surgery in the Department of Surgery, Veronica Jones, M.D., City of Hope continues to seek out the latest advancements...
Sarcoma patient in Midwest follows oncologist across country
Ken Hunt is the kind of corporate hired gun who specializes in showing companies how to operate more efficiently and increase their bottom line. A management consultant based in Chicago...
Best-selling author fights back against ovarian cancer
Deborah Harkness never stops teaching. A historian, the 58-year-old Harkness holds forth at the University of Southern California, captivating her students with insights on European history and the history of...
Targeted chemotherapy kills all tumor cells in preclinical research
Could a new molecule targeting a protein called PCNA help scientists develop a cancer-stopping pill? New preclinical research suggests it may be possible. Researchers aimed at a protein once thought to...
A lung cancer wake-up call
It was August 2021, and Devonne Swift’s cough had persisted for two weeks. She was 53, a mom and a never-smoker. For over 30 years, she’d worked at the American...
Turning six months into six years — and beyond
Ida Yaghoobians was 51 years old and unconcerned about the blood she had been seeing in her stool for about a year — she had some hemorrhoids, so she chalked...
Fighting breast cancer with a team you trust
Imelda Moreno Jordan is a strong, energetic woman who can tackle almost any challenge. She’s not only the center of an all-male family — one husband and four boys —...
Study IDs most effective drug for metastatic kidney cancer
In a clinical trial that put three targeted drugs to the test, the small molecule inhibitor cabozantinib was found most effective in treating patients with metastatic papillary kidney cancer — findings...
Research finds botanical treatment effective for colon cancer
The remarkable results of a new City of Hope study show that the natural botanical Andrographis paniculata, when given in conjunction with chemotherapy, may be a major breakthrough in...
Study finds way to determine tumor response to immunotherapy
Scientists at City of Hope, working in collaboration with researchers at Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), have found that the actions of circulating immune cells at the start of immunotherapy...