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  • City of Hope speeds the path from laboratory discoveries to treatment. This has led to breakthrough cancer drugs such as Herceptin, Rituxan, Avastin and Erbitux, which are saving lives worldwide.
  • Millions of people with diabetes worldwide benefits from synthetic human insulin developed through research conducted at City of Hope.
  • City of Hope is a recognized leader in the field of laparascopic and robotic-assisted laparascopic prostate surgeries. Since 2000, City of Hope physicians have performed more radical prostatectomies than any other center in the U.S.
  • A pioneer in bone marrow transplantation, City of Hope has performed more than 8,000 bone marrow transplants, and today operates one of the largest, most successful programs of its kind in the world.
  • City of Hope is the first – and currently only – institution in the world to perform a clinical study using genetically engineered T-cells to recognize and attack glioma, a highly lethal form of brain cancer.

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