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Jeffery Weitzel, MD, discusses the identification of ​Li-Fraumeni syndrome.

Daneng Li, MD, discusses the subgroup analysis of the phase 3 IMbrave150 trial in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma.

Charles Brenner, PhD, joins City of Hope as chair of first department focused on diabetes and cancer metabolism.

Preeminent health care innovator and leader Glenn D. Steele Jr, MD, PhD, has been elected the new board chair of City of Hope effective June 1.

Sumanta K. Pal, MD, discusses the clinical implications of the COSMIC-021 trial and highlights other exciting research efforts being made in genitourinary cancers.

Sumanta K. Pal, MD, discusses the clinical implications of the COSMIC-021 trial and highlights other exciting research efforts being made in genitourinary cancers.

Vincent Chung, MD, discusses findings from a pilot study evaluating the safety of adding dietary supplements to chemotherapy in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer.

David S. Snyder, MD, discusses how ruxolitinib and fedratinib may be used to pave the way toward transplant for patients with myelofibrosis.

Vincent Chung, MD, discusses the importance of genomic testing in pancreatic cancer.

David S. Snyder, MD, discusses tools to improve the use of allogeneic stem cell transplant in myelofibrosis.

Joseph Chao, MD, discusses the utility of microsatellite instability (MSI) status as a prognostic biomarker in gastric and gastroesophageal cancer.

City of Hope scientists have developed and tested the first CAR T-cell therapy using chlorotoxin, a component of scorpion venom, to direct T cells to target brain tumor cells.

Amir Khan, MD, discusses a large retrospective database analysis on colorectal cancer and gastric cancer presented at the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

Vincent Chung, MD, discusses the effect of gemcitabine, nab-paclitaxel (Abraxane), metformin, and dietary supplements on patients with pancreatic cancer.

David S. Snyder, MD, discusses updates in treating patients with myelofibrosis who undergo transplant.

Amir Ali Khan, MD, discusses the results of the database analysis and the remaining questions with young adult patients with colorectal cancer and gastric cancer.

Sumanta K. Pal, MD, discusses the rationale for adding cabozantinib to atezolizumab in prostate cancer.

Tanya Siddiqi, MD, discusses the results of the TRANSCEND CLL 004 trial.

Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, discusses the potential use of PARP inhibitors in renal cell carcinoma.

David S. Snyder, MD, discusses the utility of transplant in myeloproliferative neoplasms.

Amir Khan, MD, discusses trends in the overall incidence of gastric cancer and colorectal cancer.

Amir Khan, MD, discusses the rising incidence of gastric and colorectal cancers in young adult patients.

After more than 30 years of leadership as chair of City of Hope’s Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Stephen J. Forman, MD, has decided to transition out of this role.

Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, discusses novel strategies on the horizon in renal cell carcinoma.

The 2019 ACCC Annual Achievement Award was presented posthumously to Arti Hurria, MD, FASCO, City of Hope.

Jasmine M. Zain, MD, hematologist/oncologist, associate clinical professor, Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, and director, T cell Lymphoma program, City of Hope, discusses targets that are under investigation in T-cell lymphomas.

Tanya Siddiqi, MD, discusses the rationale for the phase I/II TRANSCEND CLL 004 trial investigating the use of the CAR T-cell therapy lisocabtagene maraleucel in patients with relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma.

The trial, which received a $4.1 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health and Gateway for Cancer Research, combines City of Hope’s unique CAR T cell therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, discusses potential developments with vaccines and CRISPR/Cas9 technology coming down the pipeline in renal cell carcinoma.

We traveled to Pasadena, California, for a State of the Science Summit™ on Ovarian Cancer, which featured insights from City of Hope faculty.