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Four years ago, City of Hope in Duarte and Arcadia became the first National Cancer Institute-recognized facilities in California to achieve accreditation from the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s (ASTRO)...
In honor of Skin Cancer Awareness Month this May, here are 31 facts — one per day — to provide some vital information and bust a few myths about the...
Abby Kanarek
“The outcome for this cancer is not going to be good,” Abby Kanarek told her boyfriend. “And I don’t want to put you through that. You need to...
If you are a female patient at City of Hope, you can now get your annual breast cancer screening at the Duarte campus, no matter what type of cancer or...
At 15, Tyus Munford has an open, friendly way about him, and his love of life and ease with people is apparent. A high school sophomore, he says it’s pretty...
Irene van der Heijden has a type of cancer that is incurable, inoperable and notoriously resistant to chemotherapy — low-grade serous ovarian cancer with carcinomatosis of the peritoneum, a...
A promising cure for a currently incurable disease - type 1 diabetes - is being developed at City of Hope, and patients can now apply for the Phase 1 trial...
For Leanne Burnham, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in City of Hope's Division of Health Equities, the search for a more effective prostate cancer treatment is deeply personal. As an African American, she’s experienced the...
“It’s not HIV that kills you, it’s the co-infections that do,” said Javier Gordon Ogembo, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Immuno-Oncology at City of Hope.
Among the deadliest...
Rick Kittles, Ph.D.
On Sept. 16, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) released its inaugural Cancer Disparities Progress Report — and they have pulled no punches. In it, they...