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PFS Deserves More Than Surrogate Status as a Clinical Trial End Point

January 20, 2021

Although recent benefits do not pertain to all cancers and “cure” remains a relatively uncommon event, oncologists have an increasing number of molecularly targeted and immunotherapeutic strategies to employ based on objectively meaningful clinical trial outcomes.

Markman: COVID-19 Takes Science on a Roller-Coaster Ride

January 10, 2021

In a pandemic, the public and its leaders yearn for relatively simple answers that can lead to solutions and forceful actions such as preventing serious infection and hospitalizations, treating active illness, and developing safe and effective vaccines quickly made available to the public.

Pandemic Heightens Stress of Cancer Diagnosis

December 01, 2020

The repercussions of delays in diagnosing cancer, either through screening or the presence of early symptoms, and of required modifications in standard-of-care management paradigms in the COVID-19 era are only now beginning to be fully appreciated.

City of Hope doctors lead novel clinical trial to treat cancer patients with COVID-19

October 07, 2020

City of Hope is investigating an innovative treatment for cancer patients with COVID-19 by repurposing leflunomide, an anti-inflammatory drug for rheumatoid arthritis that is inexpensive and has few serious side effects, in a new clinical trial.