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#ASCO17: Post-Conference Roundup of Themes and Trends

Read up on the progress being made in several key areas of cancer research, including immunotherapy, targeted therapy, precision surgery, and epigenetics.
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MSK Research Highlights, March 28, 2024

New MSK research helps win the approval of a drug to treat one type of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer; shows the effectiveness of cryoablation for large breast cancer tumors; identifies a gene essential for the formation of a common childhood brain tumor; and unlocks the secrets of natural killer cell metabolism.
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Making Progress Against Metastasis

While there has been remarkable progress in the number of people surviving with stage 4 cancer, MSK remains dedicated to research that will spur much needed advances.
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Top Cancer Treatment Advances at MSK in 2025

Learn about some of the most important advances in cancer treatment at MSK in 2025.
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Top Cancer Research Advances at MSK in 2023

Researchers at MSK pioneered many discoveries in 2023. Read about some of the most important findings.
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MSK Research Highlights, August 10, 2023

New MSK research finds a potential target against neuroendocrine transformation in lung and prostate cancers; discovers new clues about why donor T cells attack certain tissues in graft-versus-host disease; sheds light on why T cells let go of their prey; and uses CRISPR interference and dynamic cell-state transitions to discover enhancers that affect early human development.
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Announcement
Memorial Sloan Kettering Discoveries in Personalized Medicine Highlighted at Major Cancer Research Meeting; Investigators Honored

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), the world's oldest and largest professional organization dedicated to advancing cancer research, held its 2012 annual meeting in Chicago.
MSK neuro-oncologist Adrienne Boire and computational biologist Dana Pe’er with a male patient in a laboratory.
Article
Leptomeningeal Metastasis (LM) Clinical Trial Offers Treatment for Stage 4 Lung Cancer Patient

Read about a new treatment for leptomeningeal metastasis that is giving patients hope.
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Why Clonal Hematopoiesis, a Blood Condition Related to Aging, Is Linked to Worse Outcomes for Cancer Patients

Researchers have shown how CH, a blood condition related to aging, affects cancer outcomes — through a phenomenon called tumor-infiltrating clonal hematopoiesis.
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FDA Approves First Colorectal Cancer Treatment that Targets G12C KRAS Gene

The targeted therapy adagrasib received accelerated approved for colorectal cancer caused by a mutation called KRAS-G12C, when used in combination with the drug cetuximab. MSK investigators have led much of the research that resulted in this combined drug approval.