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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

“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...

A year after it joined forces with Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA), City of Hope has announced that CTCA will fully transition its clinical locations to the City...

Jim Kahan is a retired electrical engineer who still thinks like one.  He can expertly master complex details, a skill that served him well, first with Western Electric and Bell...