Clinical Updates & Insights

Our clinical updates provide you with timely information about Memorial Sloan Kettering’s new treatment approaches, key clinical trials, and innovations in detecting and treating many cancers.

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Researchers in radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering continue to assess multiple imaging methods in the quest to improve treatment options and success rates for patients with biliary cancers such as cholangiocarcinoma.
Memorial Sloan Kettering is one of only a few centers in the U.S. to employ liver-directed therapies – using hepatic arterial infusion (HAI) – in conjunction with a number of systemic agents.
Over the last decade radiation oncologists at Memorial Sloan Kettering have refined a technique that allows ablative doses of radiation to be delivered with low risk of toxicity to inoperable primary pancreas and liver tumors near critical organs.
Advances in diagnostic and imaging modalities are making it possible to detect complex melanoma earlier, with greater accuracy, and are helping guide surgical approaches and patient monitoring plans.
The decision as to whether to use high-dose iplimumab as an adjuvant treatment for melanoma is difficult and requires excellent communication between physician and patient.
Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Melanoma Disease Management Team understands the importance of helping these patients maximize the opportunities and overcome the challenges that arise in their lives.
The effects of adoptive T cell therapy on mesothelioma and metastatic lung and breast cancers are the focus of a new Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center trial, which, compared to some existing trials of therapy, offers some important differences for patients.
New Strides in Esophageal Cancer Management
Minimally invasive techniques, improved postoperative care, and a multidisciplinary approach help make Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s rates of esophageal surgical morbidity and mortality among the country’s lowest.
To explore new treatment options – and potentially change the standard of care for resected lung cancer – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is enrolling patients in a National Cancer Institute-sponsored trial.
In contrast with the findings of two international trials, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center data suggest the standard treatment – primary debulking surgery – may provide better outcomes in select patients when compared to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.