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MSK dance and movement therapist Jenn Whitley with a pediatric patient
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How Art Therapy, Music Therapy, and Dance Therapy Help People with Cancer

Meet three creative arts therapists at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Montage of beer, reproducing cells, and building blocks
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License to Build: New Theory of Cancer Puts Metabolism at Center

MSK researchers are rethinking the relationship between metabolism and cancer, and finding insights in some unexpected places. Your beer glass, for example.
Lab member using a next-generation sequencing machine
To Study Treatment Resistance in High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer, MSK Researchers Develop New Approach

An MSK research team aims to find new ways to stop the most common and deadly form of ovarian cancer — high-grade serous ovarian cancer — from recurring with the help of a method they developed for tracking the evolution of treatment resistant cells in ovarian cancer using blood tests.
Two researchers talking in the laboratory
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Tooling Up: New Technologies Drive Advances in Cancer Research and Treatment at MSK

MSK scientists and doctors have the most innovative tools at their disposal to make discoveries and develop better treatments.
A researcher working in an MSK lab
MSK Research Highlights, July 15, 2025

New MSK research investigates whether introducing new mutations could make immunotherapy more effective against some cancers; shows that people in their 90s who underwent lung cancer surgery had positive outcomes; shares lessons on the responsible governance of artificial intelligence in oncology; studies AI-assisted biomarker assessment in lung cancer; and demonstrates a cancer-trained large language model has strong predictive value.
Sloan Kettering Institute molecular biologist Christine Mayr
In the Lab
Scientists Find Cancer Drivers Hiding in a New Place

New findings from researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute suggest that cancer causes may be lurking in the molecule that bridges DNA and protein.
This image shows cancer cells (white) and pericytes (green) clinging to capillaries (red). The blue dots are nuclei.
In the Lab
Scientists Identify Growth Signal for Metastatic Cancer "Seeds"

Targeting this signal with drugs might be one way to stop cancers from spreading.
Jan and Gloria Gura
Reducing Cancer Side Effects Through Online Classes in Yoga, Meditation, and More 

An MSK clinical trial found that participating in integrative therapy classes online could benefit cancer patients in active treatment, not only by reducing fatigue, anxiety, and depression but also lowering hospitalization rates.
Memorial Sloan Kettering physician-scientists Samuel Bakhoum, Ross Levine, and Michel Sadelain
In the Lab
AACR 2021 Research Roundup: Chromosomal Instability, Early Changes in Blood Cancer, Revamping CAR T Cell Therapy

MSK researchers shared their latest research developments at the 2021 meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
a sneaky man on a sneaky mission
In the Lab
Stealth Mode: How Metastatic Cancer Cells Evade Detection by the Immune System

Cancer cells have a sneaky ability to hide out in the body for years at a time. MSK scientists are looking for ways to flush them out.