Andrew Artz, MD, MS

After years spent caring for older patients with leukemias and other hematologic diseases, Andrew Artz, MD, MS, takes pride in his role of moving the field away from one-size-fits-all approaches. Too many times, he’s seen older adults kept away from the most effective treatments based solely on their age, without thoughtful consideration of their fitness or personal treatment goals.

The director of the Aging and Blood Cancers Program at City of Hope Cancer Center in Duarte, California, Artz said that his ultimate goal is to develop guidelines that embed multiple assessment measures to make it easier for older patients to successfully complete grueling treatments like allogeneic stem cell transplantation and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, even as they

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