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Robert Stone: City of Hope aims to transform cancer care nationally through new models, partnerships
City of Hope has received a $50 million gift for a 190,000-square-foot outpatient center in Irvine, Calif.As a result of the gift, from Lennar Foundation, an offshoot of a building company, the facility, which is slated to be opened in 2022, will be named Lennar Foundation Cancer Center at City of Hope Orange County.
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By Matthew Bin Han Ong, Alexandria Carolan, Katie Goldberg and Paul Goldberg
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NCI Trials for April 2021
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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