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Cancer research 2015: T cell immunotherapy, targeted drugs and more
Every year, researchers make gains in the understanding of cancer, and physicians make gains in the treatment of cancer. As a result, every year, more cancer patients survive their disease. In 2015,...
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Cancer and the flu: What patients and caregivers should know
Flu season is upon us, and few people should take the risk of infection more seriously than cancer patients and their loved ones and caregivers. The flu can seriously sicken healthy people. It’s even...
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Make these 5 healthy resolutions for 2015. (No, it isn’t too late)
Don’t kid yourself. Just because it’s mid-January doesn’t mean it’s too late to make resolutions for a happier, and healthier, 2015. Just consider them resolutions that are more mature than those...
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Precision medicine isn’t science fiction; access shouldn’t be either
If you haven’t heard the term “precision medicine,” you will. If you don’t have an opinion about access to it, you will. Precision medicine is expected to grow by leaps and bounds with the recently...
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Measles and cancer: What you should know
With measles, what starts at a theme park in California definitely doesn’t stay at a theme park in California. Since the beginning of the current measles outbreak – traced to an initial exposure at...
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How to create a village for hospital patients (or, the Ilana Massi story)
City of Hope patient Ilana Massi has created a village of supporters, one that gives her a “collective hug” when she needs it. Don’t know what to take, or send, that friend of yours in the hospital?...
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Not all conditions should be treated at end of life, study suggests
Just because you can treat a condition, such as high cholesterol, at the end of life — well, that doesn’t mean you should. That’s the basic lesson of a study to be published March 30 in JAMA Internal...
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Precision medicine: It’s here – now to make it a norm, not an exception
Precision medicine holds promise – on that doctors, especially cancer specialists, can agree. But this sophisticated approach to treatment, which incorporates knowledge about a person’s genetic...
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Clinical trials could lead to new options for colorectal cancer patients
Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer need more options. Two clinical trials currently underway at City of Hope could help provide those options. Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer often...
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Myelofibrosis clinical trial aims to halt cascade of symptoms
To say that myelofibrosis patients need more treatment options would be an understatement. The severely low platelet counts, known as thrombocytopenia, that are one of the hallmark symptoms of the...
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Nature’s bounty could be next source of cancer-fighting therapies
Cancer treatments have improved over the years, but one potential source of treatments and cures remains largely untapped: nature. Cancer researchers look to nature’s bounty, such as pomegranates, for...
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Researchers hunt cancer’s origins within the tumor microenvironment
Cancer may not be the disease many people think it is. Cancer may not be a disease of proliferation so much as a product of its own microenvironment, leading researchers say. Normally, cancer is...
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Mushroom powder linked to lower PSA levels in prostate cancer patients
White button mushrooms seem fairly innocuous as fungi go. Unlike portabellas, they don’t center stage at the dinner table, and unlike truffles, they’re not the subject of gourmand fervor. But...
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Explained: Breast cancer treatment options of today – and tomorrow
When explaining breast cancer treatment options, breast cancer specialists typically discuss the best therapies currently available, working with their patients to create the most effective treatment...
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Obesity and breast cancer: The risk is real. Now we must help reduce it
That’s not an echo you hear, it’s another study linking weight to breast cancer risk. It’s also another reason to improve the health of our overall community. Obesity and breast cancer risk: The link...
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Discovery of gene’s link to survival could aid breast cancer treatment
Expression of the SERPINA1 gene appears linked to survival outcomes in women whose breast cancer tumors are both ER positive and HER2 positive, researchers have found. Women diagnosed with breast...
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Clinical trials need older adults, ASCO says. City of Hope’s Arti Hurria...
Few clinical cancer trials include older adults – and yet, more than 60 percent of cancer cases in the United States occur in people age 65 and older. The result is a dearth of knowledge on how to...
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In the news: Intraperitoneal chemotherapy for ovarian cancer
Delivering chemotherapy directly to the abdomen in women with advanced ovarian cancer is part of an effective treatment regimen that’s too little used. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in...
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Ovarian Cancer Survivors Course: Get answers to your questions
Women with ovarian cancer have questions about the most promising treatment options, revolutionary research avenues, survivorship and, of course, the potential impact on their personal lives. Now,...
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City of Hope chooses winners of Healthy Living grants
And the winners are … everyone in the San Gabriel Valley. The recipients of City of Hope’s first-ever Healthy Living grants have been announced, and the future is looking healthier already. In...
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