For Healthcare Professionals

For Healthcare Professionals: Surgical Expertise & Care

Pictured: Memorial Sloan-Kettering operating room with Wall of Knowledge. Real-time information appears on flat-panel screens as part of a dynamic visual system called the Wall of Knowledge.

Every patient referred to Memorial Sloan-Kettering for surgery benefits from the expertise of our world-class surgeons, the strength of our multidisciplinary team approach to cancer care, and access to facilities that are among the most sophisticated and innovative in the world.

Learn about what happens when you refer your patient to us for surgery.

  • Surgical Facilities
    Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s surgical facilities meet exacting standards for quality, safety, and patient satisfaction.
  • Pre- and Postoperative Nursing Care
    Nurses are present throughout the cancer care continuum at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, working in a collaborative practice with multidisciplinary disease teams.
  • Minimally Invasive Surgery
    Memorial Sloan-Kettering is a leader in the use of laparoscopic and robotic surgery for thoracic, gynecologic, gastrointestinal, prostate, and other cancers.
  • Intraoperative Techniques
    We use multiple types of intraoperative techniques to deliver therapies or confirm procedure status intraoperatively.
  • Endoscopy Technologies
    Memorial Sloan-Kettering physicians perform more than 5,300 endoscopic procedures annually.
  • Postsurgical Rehabilitation
    Postsurgical rehabilitation is an integral part of cancer care at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, and is available to inpatients as well as outpatients.