Immunotherapy

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Young cancer survivor keeps it all in the City of Hope family
City of Hope has been a part of Natasha Shows’ life for almost as long as she can remember. Her mom, Bella Adeimy, spent nearly 36 years as a nurse...
Phase 3 SWOG Cancer Research Network trial, led by a City of Hope researcher, demonstrates one-year progression-free survival in 94% of patients with Stage 3 or 4 classic Hodgkin lymphoma who received a checkpoint inhibitor combined with chemotherapy
Nivolumab added to AVD chemotherapy expected to become new standard for initial treatment for advanced stage disease in adolescents and adults, based on trial data to be presented at 2023...
New study finds continuing immunotherapy once cancer progresses doesn't work and could cause harm
CONTACT-03 trial finds increased toxicity without clinical benefit in patients with advanced kidney cancer who received additional checkpoint inhibitor therapy after disease progression CONTACT Letisia Marquez 626-476-7593 lemarquez@coh.org LOS ANGELES...
Turning six months into six years — and beyond
Ida Yaghoobians was 51 years old and unconcerned about the blood she had been seeing in her stool for about a year — she had some hemorrhoids, so she chalked...
RESEARCH ALERT: City of Hope scientists reveal how XBP1s interacts with IL-15 to enhance the survival of natural killer cells
Discovery suggests a promising therapeutic approach for fighting cancers FINDINGS A new study published in Science Immunology points to a promising therapeutic approach for future cancer treatments based on natural...
Powerful new therapy doubles treatment targets
For many years, chemotherapy has been the standard treatment for most cancers. While these drugs are often effective, they can come with a host of side effects. Thankfully, City of...
Leading-edge researcher meets ‘old school’ physician
Marie Palomino ignored the knot on her neck for nearly a year. Until she couldn’t. Traveling through Europe in June 2022, the 64-year-old interpreter and public school teacher began to...
New hope for cervical cancer patients
When Luzmila Salazar learned she had cervical cancer, she felt like her life was crumbling around her. “It was the worst thing I’d ever heard,” said the 43-year-old mother of...
Teamwork trounces stage 4 lung cancer
John S. Howell likes to talk about his good fortune. “I feel like the luckiest guy in the world,” he’ll say, right at the start of a conversation. Five minutes...
Third treatment’s the charm for lymphoma patient
When postal worker Juan Yee was told that his non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma had relapsed for a second time in 2018, he was ready to let nature take its course.  “I couldn’t...