Mark H. Bilsky has been named one of the 28 top spine surgeons in North America by Orthopedics This Week. The publication surveyed leading spine surgeons and asked them to select the best of their peers. Dr. Bilsky is director of Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s multidisciplinary spine tumor team and specializes in treating both primary and metastatic tumors of the spine and spinal cord.
Our doctors have shown that tumors compressing the spinal cord can be controlled using less-invasive surgery combined with a precise, intense form of radiation therapy.
The director of the Spine Tumor Center explains how this new, high-powered approach to radiation therapy has changed the way spine tumors are treated at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
In 2003, Mary McCabe was recruited to lead Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Cancer Survivorship Initiative and since that time has worked to develop a comprehensive program for cancer survivors, which includes follow-up care, research, and education and training.
A recent study led by Memorial Sloan-Kettering surgeons Richard J. Wong, Yuman Fong, and Jatin P. Shah has uncovered a mechanism that allows tumor cells to sense the presence of a nerve and migrate along it.
