In the News

Catch up with some of the patients we got to know in 2017.

When this feathered patient found her way into a New York laboratory in 1909, she changed the course of cancer science.

Learn about some lesser-known side effects from cancer treatment including falling caused by peripheral neuropathy, fatigue, hormone and sexual changes, and short-term memory problems (chemo brain).

Learn how nurses stay resilient by dealing effectively with stress on the job.

Discover how MSK Monmouth is making an impact in Middletown, New Jersey.

Structural biologists in the Sloan Kettering Institute have used a powerful tool called cryo-EM to solve the structure of a major cancer player.

Thousands of technology professionals from around the world recently gathered in Long Beach, California, for the sold-out Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, a multi-track machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computational neuroscience event featuring talks, demonstrations, symposia and oral / poster presentations, along with several workshops. Leaders in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data engineering from Memorial Sloan Kettering attended NIPS and announced the winner of a unique competition created by MSK, Classifying Clinically Actionable Genetic Mutations. For more information and to set up interviews or access photos and video, email [email protected].

SummaryMore than 20 MSK physicians and researchers presented work at an annual breast cancer conference in San Antonio.The San Antonio Breast Cancer Sy...

In the largest-ever genetic analysis of people being treated with checkpoint inhibitors, Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers looked at patients who received several checkpoint inhibitors for a number of different cancers at many different hospitals. Researchers found that people who had a greater diversity and more variation in their human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes responded much better to immunotherapy compared with those who had less diversity. For more information or to speak with an expert, contact Rebecca Williams at [email protected].

Immunotherapy drugs called checkpoint inhibitors have been a game changer for some people with cancer. But for most patients, these drugs have been disappointing. Researchers are trying to figure out why.