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Miley CyrusDisney’s Concert for Hope benefiting City of Hope was covered by E! News and The Hollywood Reporter.
Vincent Vanillo, brother of City of Hope patient Jacob Vanillo, appeared on Los Angeles’ KABC-TV on July 31 for the station’s “Cool Kids” segment. For a high school project, Vincent Vanillo collected money to pay for gas cards, which he distributed to parents of pediatric patients at City of Hope, LAC+USC Medical Center and Loma Linda University Medical Center and to a classmate with leukemia. He raised $3,000, $1,300 of which went to City of Hope. Jacob’s physician, Judith Sato, M.D., also was interviewed.
KABC-TV interviewed George Somlo, M.D., for a story on women who choose to undergo double mastectomies even though their breast cancer is only in one breast. The story, which appeared on Aug. 19, was spurred by actress Christina Applegate’s decision to undergo a double mastectomy. Somlo discussed the increase in women choosing double mastectomies and the reasons, including genetic predisposition, which may factor into a patient’s decision.
CBS’s “The Early Show” aired a story on Aug. 7 featuring diabetes expert Fouad R. Kandeel, M.D., Ph.D.,and Julie Ressler, M.D.,City of Hope radiologist and patient, about Ressler’s participation in a City of Hope study that tests an investigational system, called the Medtronic external Physiologic Insulin Delivery system. This system aims to close the loop between blood glucose monitoring and insulin delivery in people with type 1 diabetes.
Los Angeles affiliates KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV featured stories about City of Hope patients John Cloer and Christine Pechera to help promote the ThinkCure radiothon/telethon. Cloer, a 7-year-old acutelymphoblastic leukemia survivor from Washington, D.C., who traveled to represent Californian a national tee ball all-star game at the White House. His mother, Gina, and his physician, Lisa Mueller, M.D., were interviewed along with Stephen J. Forman, M.D., for a segment that aired Aug. 13. Pechera, a 36-year-old filmmaker diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, met her unrelated bone marrow donor in April, when he flew with his family from Hong Kong to join her at City of Hope’s Bone Marrow Transplant Reunion. Pechera and her physician, Auayporn Nademanee, M.D., were interviewed for a segment, which aired Aug. 14.
City of Hope Chief Medical Officer Alexandra Levine, M.D., was interviewed by NBC Network News about the mind-body connection in the treatment of cancer. Levine discussed how the integration of conventional medicine and complementary therapies (such as meditation, yoga and tai chi) can help improve quality of life for cancer patients. The segment aired on NBC-affiliated stations nationwide on Sept.4 and 5.
City of Hope’s Walk for Hope to Cure Breast Cancer was featured by numerous regional outlets. ABC7Chicago.com featured City of Hope ambassador Andrea Evans (“One Life To Live”) in its segment covering Chicago’sWalk for Hope on Oct. 2. On Sept. 28, Philadelphia stations WPVI-TV (ABC) and WTXF-TV (FOX) covered the local Walk for Hope. Seattle-Tacoma stations also aired local Walk for Hope coverage on Oct. 2, with segments on KPLZ-FM’s “Kent and Allen Show,” as well as local FOX affiliate KCPQ-TV. FOX’s Phoenix affiliate, KSAZ-TV, covered Walk for Hope on Sept. 30.
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month received substantial media attention. “Major Brands Go ‘Pink’ to Support City of Hope” stories appeared on the Web sites of Reuters, Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Arizona Republic, San Francisco Examiner, Yahoo! News, Houston Chronicle, The Boston Herald, Dallas Morning News, Las Vegas Review Journal, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Orlando Sentinel, Arizona Republic, Business Journal Phoenix, East Bay BusinessTimes, Riverside Press Enterprise, Business Journal Sacramento, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Ventura County Star.