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Maurie Markman, MD, discusses the search for less toxic strategies for the treatment of cancer that may lessen the negative impact on quality of life while maintaining therapeutic efficacy.

Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, president of City of Hope National Medical Center, and Deana and Steve Campbell Physician-in-Chief Distinguished Chair, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

Maurie Markman, MD, discusses the clinical benefit of early-stage trials.

Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, a medical oncologist at City of Hope, discusses the frontline approval of nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) for patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).

Maurie Markman, MD, says that the acceleration in regulatory agency approvals for novel antineoplastic agents and the focus of biomarker discovery proves that this is the era of precision medicine.

Walker will lead patient care, nursing, ancillary and supportive service operations for the main Duarte campus and clinical network.

Maurie Markman, MD, president of Medicine and Science, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, discusses the latest advances in treatment for gynecological malignancies and other tumor types.

Sumanta Kumar Pal, MD, associate clinical professor, Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, co-director, Kidney Cancer Program, City of Hope, discusses the role of PD-L1 in metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

David S. Snyder, MD, associate chair and professor, Department of Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, City of Hope, discusses emerging agents in myelofibrosis.

Maung Myo Htut, MD, assistant clinical professor of hematology and hematopoietic cell transplantation, City of Hope, discusses the use of immunotherapy in the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma.

Maurie Markman, MD, discusses the cause and impact of the opioid addiction epidemic in the United States.

City of Hope is currently the only institution in Southern California to offer both FDA-approved CAR T-cell therapies.

Ravi Salgia, MD, PhD, discusses the evolving role of ALK-directed therapies for patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

Ravi Salgia, MD, PhD, associate director, Clinical Sciences Research, Arthur & Rosalie Kaplan Chair, Medical Oncology, professor and chair, Department of Medical Oncology & Therapeutics Research, City of Hope, discusses effective agents in the treatment of patients with ALK-positive tumors.

Sagus Sampath, MD, assistant professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, City of Hope, discusses the safety profile of immunotherapy in combination with radiation in the treatment of patients with lung cancer.

Loretta Erhunmwunsee, MD, thoracic surgeon, assistant professor of surgery, City of Hope, discusses the factors that contribute to disparities in the treatment of patients with lung cancer.

Ravi Salgia, MD, PhD, Arthur & Rosalie Kaplan Chair in Medical Oncology, associate director for clinical sciences at City of Hope, discusses the importance of molecular markers in lung cancer.

Dan J. Raz, MD, MAS, co-director, Lung Cancer and Thoracic Oncology Program, assistant professor, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, City of Hope, discusses the subsets of the ALCHEMIST trial.

Jae Y. Kim, MD, chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, assistant professor, Department of Surgery, City of Hope, discusses the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors in surgical patients with lung cancer.

Erminia Massarelli, MD, PhD, MS, associate clinical professor, Department of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope, discusses the adoption of alectinib (Alecensa) as the first-line therapy in the treatment of patients with ALK-positive non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Loretta Erhunmwunsee, MD, thoracic surgeon, assistant professor of surgery, City of Hope, discusses disparities in the treatment of lung cancer.

Maurie Markman, MD, discusses the need to change the paradigm of clinical trials and FDA approvals in ovarian cancer.

Jae Y. Kim, MD, discusses developments with checkpoint inhibition in patients with resectable NSCLC.

Ravi Salgia, MD, PhD, discusses the evolution and current state of biomarker testing in the field of NSCLC.

Loretta Erhunmwunsee, MD, discusses the racial and socioeconomic disparities in lung cancer trials

City of Hope announced that it has appointed Michael A. Caligiuri, M.D., in a new executive leadership role as president of City of Hope National Medical Center and physician-in-chief.

Jonathan N. Warner, MD, reconstructive urologist, City of Hope, discusses the future of surgery for patients with prostate cancer.

Sumanta K. Pal, MD, discusses advancements in prostate cancer, bladder cancer, and promising results in kidney cancer.

Patients who received maintenance therapy with rituximab (Rituxan) following autologous stem cell transplantation as treatment for mantle cell lymphoma had a survival advantage, according to results from a retrospective single-center study.

City of Hope physician Arti Hurria knows what it is like to be a young faculty member balancing life as a doctor, researcher and parent.