Leukemia

Pages Tagged with "Leukemia"

Dr. Saro Armenian Shares His Passion for Pediatric Oncology
Saro H. Armenian, D.O., M.P.H. Growing up in Beirut, Lebanon, Saro H. Armenian, D.O., M.P.H., chair and professor in the City of Hope® of Hope Children’s Cancer Center, did not aspire to...
Teen With AML Sees Success With Revumenib Treatment
Leen Faytrouni It isn’t often that you find both a hero and a medical pioneer in the same family. But such is the case with teen sisters Leen and Jana Faytrouni...
City of Hope doctors share passion for treating cancer patients
Cancer is one of the most formidable challenges in health care, and those who treat it are the embodiment of unwavering dedication, compassion and expertise. At City of Hope®, our...
Leukemia patient thanks granddaughter for saving his life
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...
NEJM features patient who achieved HIV, leukemia remission
City of Hope® treated the oldest person to be cured of blood cancer and then achieve remission for HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor with a...
New hematologist shares his journey from UN to City of Hope
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...
City of Hope Research Reveals an Immune Cell That Can Attack Cancer
According to preclinical research published online today in Cell, one of the world’s premier scientific journals, researchers at City of Hope® have discovered that a type of immune cell...
City of Hope presents pivotal clinical trial data on potential new therapy for acute leukemias
Ibrahim T. Aldoss, M.D., City of Hope associate professor in the Division of Leukemia and principal investigator for the AUGMENT-101 trial. City of Hope has announced that 23% of patients with relapsed or treatment-resistant KMT2Ar acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) and mixed phenotype leukemia who took the...
City of Hope presents pivotal clinical trial data at American Society of Hematology (ASH) conference on revumenib, a potential new targeted therapy for high-risk subtypes of acute leukemias
Revumenib met its primary endpoint for efficacy in pivotal Phase 2 AUGMENT-101 trial and demonstrated favorable safety and tolerability in adult and pediatric patients with relapsed/refractory KMT2A-rearranged (KMT2Ar) acute myeloid...
Donor crosses continents to meet man whose life she saved
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...