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Finding Trustworthy Information About Cancer Online

Almost everyone gets medical information online, but it can be hard to know what's true. In this story, MSK provides tips for evaluating online content.
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In the Lab
Machine Learning Helps Clarify the Risk Connected to Age-Related Blood Condition

A new study shows how evolution and natural selection influence clonal hematopoiesis, an aging-related blood condition that increases the risk of blood cancer and cardiovascular disease.
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An Interview With Simon Powell

Dr. Powell joined Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2008 as Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology with a joint appointment in Sloan Kettering Institute's Molecular Biology Program.
MD-PhD Candidate Brandon Cuevas in an MSK lab
The Next Generation of Cancer Researchers: Brandon Cuevas

Meet Cancer Engineering MD-PhD candidate Brandon Cuevas: “Being able to be a bridge between medicine and research is such a privilege, one that not many places can offer.”
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Education and Care on Wheels: MSK’s Mobile Health Unit Serves Communities across New York Metro Area

MSK’s Mobile Health Unit provides health education, screening, and navigation services to underserved communities in the New York metro area.
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In the Lab
Research Clarifies How IDH Mutations Cause Cancer

The MSK team’s goal was to get at the underlying defects in cells that these mutations cause.
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New Research Shows How Cancer Rewires a Key Immune Pathway To Spread

A collaboration between MSK and Weill Cornell Medicine discovered a new relationship between cancer cells and the immune system, and shows how cancer can selfishly hijack a normally helpful immune pathway.
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MSK Research Highlights, October 31, 2023

New MSK research identifies a promising immunotherapy target for acute myeloid leukemia; decodes genetic differences in tumors from patients with African ancestry; and finds a virtual mind-body fitness program reduced hospitalizations for those in active cancer treatment. A clinical trial led by MSK also resulted in the approval of a new combination therapy for non-small cell lung cancer.
Sloan Kettering Institute Researchers Look Beyond DNA to Identify Cancer Drivers

Researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute have found that changes in an information-carrying molecule called messenger RNA (mRNA) can inactivate the functions of tumor suppressor genes and thereby promote cancer. The findings pinpoint previously unknown drivers of the disease, indicating that cancer diagnostics need to go beyond the analysis of DNA mutations.
MSK nurse Margaret Bediones
MSK Nurse Dedicated To Serving the Underserved

Learn how Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center nurse Margaret Bediones improves the health of underserved communities at the MSK Ralph Lauren Center in Harlem through community outreach focused on cancer prevention and screening.