Ted Schwartz, a cancer survivor, gifted $15M to City of Hope that will be used entirely to further accelerate immunotherapy research and treatment innovations, such as the CAR T-cell therapy that saved his life.
The intersection of diabetes, obesity and cancer represents an important and underappreciated challenge in medicine. Apart from smoking, overweight is now the leading modifiable risk factor for cancer. With the global epidemic of overweight and diabetes driving cancer incidence across multiple organ sites, understanding the metabolic underpinnings of this relationship has never been more critical.
