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Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Eileen O'Reilly
Vaccine Targeting KRAS in Pancreatic and Colorectal Cancer Shows Promise

Read about a therapeutic vaccine that could potentially prevent certain pancreatic and colorectal cancers from returning.
Four people who were successfully treated for rectal cancer in a clinical trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering are seen posing outdoors with the trial’s two principal investigators.
Rectal Cancer Disappears After Experimental Use of Immunotherapy, Now an FDA Designated Breakthrough Therapy

Rectal cancer patients saw their tumors disappear in a clinical trial involving immunotherapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center—without surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy.
Charles Rudin and David Jones, leaders of the Druckenmiller Center
In the Clinic
MSK’s New Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research Takes on Biggest Cancer Killer

The new Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Center for Lung Cancer Research brings together MSK physicians and scientists in an intensive, multidisciplinary effort against the number-one cause of death from cancer in the nation.
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.
Jung Hun Oh
Pregnancy-Related Proteins in Tumors Linked to Worse Survival in Female Lung Cancer Patients

Lung cancer co-opts genes that normally help a fetus develop and evade the mother’s immune system — leading to poorer outcomes in female patients, an MSK research team has found.
MSK patient Kara Kenny hugging medical oncologist Diane Reidy Lagunes
Feature
Coping with Rectal Cancer: A Young Mother’s Story of Determination and Compassion

Learn how MSK is helping a young mother cope with rectal cancer through the Center for Young Onset Colorectal Cancer, the first program in the country devoted to younger adults with this disease.
Charles Sawyers, Kenneth Offit, and Larry Norton
Honors
Three Memorial-Sloan Kettering Researchers Receive Special Awards by the American Society of Clinical Oncology

Charles Sawyers, Larry Norton, and Kenneth Offit are being honored with special awards at the annual meeting of the world’s leading professional organization for cancer physicians and researchers.
Dandelion
Seed and Soil: Tracing the Journey of Spreading Cancer Cells

MSK researchers are learning more about how cancer cells can survive undetected for years only to return in new places. These insights will guide future therapies.
Drawing of hospital building.
In the Clinic
A Future Cancer Hospital in NYC to Meet Rising Need

Learn about MSK's visionary plans for meeting the upcoming surge in cancer cases with state-of-the-art clinical care.
Memorial Sloan Kettering medical oncologist Eileen O’Reilly
In the News
Year in Review: 10 Important Clinical Research Discoveries in 2019

As we approach the end of 2019, learn about some of the biggest advances in clinical research made this year at MSK.