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Mark Bilsky and Ilya Laufer
Mitigating Morbidities with Modern Approaches to Spinal Metastases

Spinal cord compression due to spinal metastases is a medical emergency. Modern treatment approaches have fundamentally shifted the paradigm from providing short-term palliation and pain relief to delivering durable tumor control with fewer morbidities than older approaches. Therefore, cancer patients who have symptoms of spinal cord compression should be referred for surgical evaluation as soon as possible.
Prasad Adusumilli
CAR T Cells Show Promise in Treating Mesothelioma and Pleural Malignancies

The preliminary results of our ongoing trial investigating CAR T cell therapy to treat patients with malignant pleural disease, including mesothelioma, show “encouraging clinical outcomes”
Mario E. Lacouture, MD
Preventing and Managing Alopecia in Breast Cancer Patients

Topical minoxidil can be of significant benefit to women with breast cancer who develop alopecia during treatment with endocrine therapies, our most recent research shows.
Video: Lymphoma Update: CAR T Therapies and Checkpoint Inhibitors

Lymphoma experts Anas Younes, MD and Andrew Zelenetz, MD, PhD discuss the fast evolving research on CAR T cells and checkpoint inhibitors that is yielding the novel treatment options improving both outcomes and quality of life for people with lymphoma.
kidney illustration
Kidney Cancer Surgery: Integrating Oncological and Renal Functional Concerns

Across the United States, there is a disparity in the rate of people who are candidates for a partial nephrectomy — those with small renal tumors — and those who actually have the procedure.
Mehrara
Optimal Approaches for Integrating Radiotherapy with Breast Reconstruction

Emerging evidence shows that immediate autologous breast reconstruction can tolerate radiotherapy better than previously thought in select cases.
Andrea Cercek
MSK’s New Center to Focus on “Alarming” Increase in Colorectal Cancer in the Young

The incidence of colorectal cancer in those under the age of 50 has been increasing globally at an alarming rate. Pinpointing the reason remains elusive. Memorial Sloan Kettering has just opened the first center in the world dedicated to research and treatment of the disease as it presents in this demographic.
Dr. Miguel-Angel Perales and patient
Reducing Toxicities in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Despite significant advances in supportive care and improvements in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantationoutcomes, about one in every three patients succumbs to post-transplant toxicities, half of which are not related to graft-versus-host disease.
MSK doctor and patient
Video: Missing the Heart: Advances in Delivery of Radiation for Breast Cancer

Along with Valentine's Day, February marks American Heart Month. MSK’s Vice Chair of Radiation Oncology, Dr Oren Cahlon talks on how his team are making radiation-induced heart disease “a thing of the past” for our breast cancer patients.
Deborah Korenstein
Bridging the Gap in the Care of Cancer Survivors

Recently published data from Memorial Sloan Kettering shows that most of the guidelines primary care physicians can turn to for advice about appropriate cancer survivorship care are vague and inconsistent, throwing up barriers to effective post cancer care.