City of Hope is scheduled to open a cancer specialty hospital on its academic cancer campus in Orange County Dec. 1.
The landscape of cancer treatment is rapidly evolving. Increasingly, there is recognition that care must go beyond treating the disease itself—it must also address the whole person and the debilitating symptoms patients experience during and after treatment.
Christine M. Lovly will spearhead the development of City of Hope’s new national thoracic oncology program, effective Jan. 1, 2026.
As we mark Lung Cancer Awareness Month, it is a time to acknowledge that screening and prevention are vital, and equally crucial is ensuring that patients have access to state-of-the-art care and research. Herein, I spotlight some of the transformative work underway at City of Hope.
Over the past three decades, cancer genetics has transformed precision oncology. Germline testing has advanced from single-gene Sanger sequencing to parallel sequencing of hundreds of genes, while tumor (somatic) testing has expanded with the rise of targeted therapies based on point mutations, copy number changes and other alterations.
Nearly five decades ago, I joined City of Hope’s nascent bone marrow transplant (BMT) program, which focused on improving outcomes for patients with advanced leukemia.
City of Hope launched a national clinical trials model to expand access to emerging life-saving cancer treatments to more patients across the country.
City of Hope has developed and deployed HopeLLM, a proprietary generative AI platform that addresses critical operational challenges in hospitals while advancing personalized cancer care.
Some survivors of childhood cancer are more at risk for serious health issues as they grow older, including new cancers and chronic conditions like heart disease, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The landscape of cancer care is evolving rapidly, with growing recognition that optimal patient outcomes require a whole-person care approach that goes beyond cytotoxic and targeted therapies.
