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When Breath Becomes Air: Dr. Lucy Kalanithi Reflects on How Cancer Changed Her Family’s Life

Read a Q & A with Lucy Kalanithi, the widow of Paul Kalanithi, who wrote When Breath Becomes Air.
Rob with his wife and daughter
FDA Approves Zanidatamab for Biliary Tract Cancers With High HER2 Levels 

Learn more about a new treatment for biliary tract cancers with high levels of HER2. The drug zanidatamab has been approved by the FDA, thanks to a clinical trial co-led by MSK.
Dana Pe'er
“Beautiful Patterns in Biology”: How SKI’s Dana Pe’er Earned a Top Honor and Advocates for Women Scientists

Read an interview with Sloan Kettering Institute Computational and Systems Biology Chair Dana Pe'er.
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In the Lab
Researchers Find Clues to How Breast Cancer Can Infiltrate the Brain

A new study sheds light on what enables breast cancer cells to spread to the brain and presents a potential target for drugs.
Attendees of the fifth annual MSK-CTONG Symposium
Memorial Sloan Kettering and the Chinese Thoracic Oncology Group Urge International Harmonization to Accelerate Cancer Drug Approvals at Annual Event

Global regulatory harmonization of clinical trials provides significant opportunity to accelerate access to cancer treatments to benefit all of humanity. This was the theme of the fifth annual MSK-CTONG Symposium, hosted online for a global audience of 20,000 from Guangzhou, China and New York on December 2, 2022.
MSK physician-scientist Yu Chen
MSK Scientists Identify New — and Very Common — Subtype of Prostate Cancer

The findings could pave the way toward more targeted treatments for the disease.
Proximal tubule of the kidney.
In the Lab
Miniature Device Could Unlock the Promise of Some Kidney Cancer Drugs

Memorial Sloan Kettering scientists have engineered a tiny particle that could ferry drugs directly to the kidneys and prevent their uptake in other organs.
Research Suggests Potential Immune Therapy for Preventing Breast Cancer Metastasis

A new therapy tested in mouse models appears to harness neutrophils, a type of white blood cell, to effectively prevent the spread of breast cancer cells.
MSK surgeons are highly skilled at treating even the most difficult gynecologic cancers.
In the Clinic
5 Reasons MSK Excels at Treating Gynecologic Cancers

Read why MSK’s medical team is the best in the nation at treating gynecologic cancers.
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AACR Project GENIE Seeks to Advance Cancer Treatment

Eight leading cancer centers are coming together to share genomic sequencing data, in the hope of making faster progress in curing cancer.