Opening Cancer's Black Box The Metastasis Research Center has brought together 27 Memorial Sloan-Kettering laboratories to facilitate research on metastasis and its treatment.
An Interview with Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa Since joining Memorial Sloan-Kettering in 2001, medical oncologist Ghassan Abou-Alfa has specialized in treating patients who have primary liver cancer. He also investigates and tests new targeted therapies in clinical studies and advocates for greater awareness of the disease’s global impact.
Researchers Discover How Some Tumors Invade Along Nerves 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.
Public CancerSmart Lecture Highlights the Science of Breast Cancer Treatment More than 300 members of the public gathered in Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s Rockefeller Research Laboratories Auditorium on March 18 to hear medical oncologist Clifford A. Hudis speak on “New Concepts, New Targets, New Directions, New Hope” in treating breast cancer.
Lucille Castori Center for Microbes, Inflammation, and Cancer Established Memorial Sloan-Kettering has created a new multidisciplinary research center that promises to shed light on the role that microbes and the body’s inflammatory and immunological responses to them play in the development of cancer.
New Program Can Help Cancer Patients Preserve Fertility Memorial Sloan-Kettering has established a fertility preservation program within the Center’s Cancer Survivorship Initiative to provide information and resources to clinicians to help them initiate discussions with patients about fertility preservation.
Murray Brennan is Named Vice President for International Programs Murray F. Brennan, a distinguished cancer surgeon and former Chair of Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s Department of Surgery, has been named Vice President for International Programs and Director of the Elmer and Mamdouha El-Sayed Bobst International Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
Mario Lacouture Named Associate Member Mario E. Lacouture is a board-certified dermatologist with special interest in the dermatologic side effects of cancer treatments.
Doracy Fontenla Named Associate Member Doracy P. Fontenla is a board-certified medical physicist and educator whose focus has been the training of residents and fellows in radiation therapy and medical physics.
Christopher Comstock Named Clinical Member Christopher E. Comstock comes to Memorial Sloan-Kettering from the University of California, San Diego, where he served for six years as chief of the breast imaging section.