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Fecal Transplants Proven to Restore Health-Promoting Bacteria

A randomized clinical trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) has shown that fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) can reestablish the health-promoting bacteria that are often damaged by intense antibiotic treatment in people who have stem cell or bone marrow transplants for blood cancer.
A nurse gives a girl a vaccination.
Q&A
HPV Vaccine and Cancer Risk: Frequently Asked Questions

Cancers linked to HPV are on the rise. But only a little over half of all adolescents in the U.S. got the full series of vaccinations. In this Q&A, Chrisann Kyi talks about why it's so important for young people to get vaccinated.
A woman considering birth control pills
Feature
Birth Control and Cancer Risk: 6 Things You Should Know

Find out what an MSK gynecologist thinks you should know about birth control and cancer risk.
Viviane Tabar and Lisa DeAngelis
Feature
What Really Matters in Treating Brain Cancer: An Interview with Two MSK Experts

Two of MSK's top brain experts reflect on how they care for people and recent advances in treatment.
Different viewpoints of the STING pathway
In the Lab
Putting the STING in Immunotherapy: Research Focuses on Ways to Improve Cancer Treatments

Researchers are looking for ways to make cancer cells more visible to the immune system.
MSK pediatric oncologist Filemon Dela Cruz
Feature
The Treatments Changing Childhood Cancer: At Work with Filemon Dela Cruz

Go behind the scenes with Filemon Dela Cruz, who cares for children with sarcoma and conducts precision medicine research at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
MSK medical oncologist Anita Kumar
In the Clinic
Taking on Mantle Cell Lymphoma: MSK Leads Research into New Treatments

Learn about novel therapies emerging for the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma.
Colored dots (cells) separating through a funnel-like structure.
Finding
Large Study Pinpoints Genetic Changes Underlying Drug Resistance in the Most Common Type of Breast Cancer

Scientists are learning how estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer evolves to thwart hormonal therapies and are developing ways to stop it.
Papillary renal cell carcinoma under the microscope
Finding
Study Suggests More People with Kidney Cancer Should Be Screened for Hereditary Cancer Genes

Researchers have found that more than 20% of people with a type of cancer called advanced non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma have disease that is driven by inherited cancer mutations.
Pancreatic tumor cells
In the Lab
Studying a Forerunner of Pancreatic Cancer Reveals New Clues about How the Disease Develops

This research is important for developing better drugs and screening methods for pancreatic tumors.