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Myeloma Patient Overcomes Rare POEMS Syndrome Diagnosis
George Green and his wife, Elizabeth. George Green looks remarkably healthy for someone who received last rites not that long ago.He’s a calm, smiling, 66-year-old former nurse and businessman, enjoying retirement with his wife...
2 Patients Meet Their Donors During Emotional Reunion
More than 4,000 blood cancer survivors beamed as they walked the blue carpet to cheers from nurses and other staff during City of Hope’s 48th Annual Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion...
Couple fly husband’s bone marrow donor from Germany
How far would you go to thank someone who saved your life?For Wendell Liljedahl and Elizabeth Scarbrough, the sky was the limit. The Ventura couple cashed in their frequent...
Clinical trial helps teen volleyball player spike leukemia
Tatum Demontmorency loves volleyball. Growing up in Bakersfield, California, she’s played the sport since age 10, starring on her school teams and now, at 19, coaching the squad at her...
Personalized care makes all the difference for senior patient
“I’ve been very active all my life. I love playing tennis and walking,” says Susan Reid, 72, who lives in Santa Barbara, California, with her husband Gary. “We live right...
CAR T cell therapy a game-changer for teen with leukemia
Sebastian "Diego" Serna is a happy, healthy 17-year-old with big plans.“I want to finish high school,” he says, “then go to college, study criminal justice and go into law...
City of Hope receives $32.3 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to advance innovative therapies for patients
The CIRM funds will support cell and gene therapy clinical trials for HIV, leukemia and a bone marrow disease CONTACT Zen Logsdon 626-409-9367 [email protected]  LOS ANGELES — Researchers at...
Nurse shares passion for CAR T cell therapy
When Jennifer Peterson, R.N., M.S.N., OCN, BMTCN, first came to City of Hope as a travel nurse more than a decade ago, she had no idea that it would change...
Patient who achieved HIV remission shares his story
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...
Targeting glioblastoma with a cancer-killing virus
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...