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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.
EditorialHealth Disparities
By Matthew Bin Han Ong, Alexandria Carolan, Katie Goldberg and Paul Goldberg
By Matthew Bin Han Ong
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NCI Trials


NCI Trials for April 2021
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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Knudsen and Thoelke: “It’s actually solving for bottlenecks and challenges that we’ve been unable to overcome for so long” - A chronotherapy study in Nature Medicine showed dramatic results. Then it was retracted.
The phase III trial claimed a staggering boost to OS and PFS when immunochemotherapy was given before 3 p.m.

















