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Feature
6 Reasons to Quit Smoking if You Have Cancer

Learn from MSK experts about how to quit smoking if you have cancer. It starts with having honest conversations about smoking and nicotine addiction.
Gail Goode
How MSK Is Increasing Diversity in Cancer Clinical Trials to Improve Treatments

An MSK clinical trial is helping Gail Goode overcome multiple myeloma and sheds new light on how cancer affects people of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
MSK physician scientist Piro Lito, MD, PhD
Q&A
A Potential Advance Against RAS Gene-Driven Cancers

Learn about insights that could lead to a new class of drugs against cancers caused by RAS gene mutations.
Dr. Alexander Drilon
FDA Grants Accelerated Approval to Repotrectinib for Cancers with NTRK Fusions 

The FDA has approved the targeted drug repotrectinib for patients 12 and older with tumors that carry gene changes called NTRK fusions. The trial that resulted in the approval was led by MSK investigators.
Giovanna Whitting
For Thyroid Cancers with RET Mutations, FDA Approves Selpercatinib

The FDA has granted full approval to the targeted therapy selpercatinib (Retevmo®) for treating thyroid cancers that have certain changes in a gene called RET. Learn about MSK’s role in the development of this drug and about how patients may benefit.
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In the Clinic
New MSK Initiative Focuses on the Early Detection and Prevention of Cancer

Because cancer is more treatable when it’s caught early, MSK’s new Precision Interception and Prevention initiative focuses on early detection.
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How Do Cigarettes Cause Cancer?

Everyone knows that cigarettes cause cancer. But what do we know about how they do it?
Does Exercise Improve Survival After a Cancer Diagnosis? An Encouraging New Study

Learn how exercise can help many people live longer after they are diagnosed with cancer, according to a new study from MSK's Exercise-Oncology Service.
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Support
New Reasons to Use a Tobacco Treatment Program to Quit Smoking and Other Tobacco Products

Research has shown that quitting tobacco use immediately improves health and that tobacco treatment programs make it easier to quit than going it alone.
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Q&A
Ten Years of Inspiration and Hope: Bridges Celebrates Its Anniversary

Learn more about Memorial Sloan Kettering’s newsletter for cancer survivors, which is celebrating its tenth year of publication.