When Luzmila Salazar learned she had cervical cancer, she felt like her life was crumbling around her. “It was the worst thing I’d ever heard,” said the 43-year-old mother of...

John S. Howell likes to talk about his good fortune. “I feel like the luckiest guy in the world,” he’ll say, right at the start of a conversation. Five minutes...

One of William Dale, M.D., Ph.D.'s, first patients at City of Hope was a 90-year old breast cancer survivor who needed help with pain management. She was so impressed...

Mutua Munavu is a can-do guy in a can-do job. He’s an engineer at Boeing, working in customer support. “We’re the ones who keep the planes flying,” he says. He...

“I’m a runner,” Mika Reiner Mayer said to her surgeon. “If you can’t save my leg, don’t wake me up!” In a few short months, Mayer’s entire life had flipped...

“Hit me with whatever you’ve got, the strongest stuff you have!” So said Michael R.,* a determined 65-year-old businessman from Orange County, California, upon hearing he had pancreatic cancer. It...

Craig Cunningham believes in miracles. And not just because of his profession. “Pastor Craig” (everybody calls him that) leads the Shadow Rock Church in La Quinta, California. He believes in...

Heather Hampel, M.S., CGC, a veteran genetic counselor with nearly three decades’ experience, is driven by the memories of the lives she’s been able to help. And one she...

Christina Sherrill was your typical active Southern California teen, growing up in Simi Valley. “Cheerleading, dance, volleyball,” she recalled. “I was always doing something.” When she reached her 26th birthday...

Dmareon Hawkins is a normal, happy, healthy 11-year-old boy living with his parents and three brothers in San Bernardino. He wants to be a scientist when he grows up. He...