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Young girl wearing pink sits with her mother
Feature
Meet the four young ambassadors featured in the annual Stop & Shop campaign to fundraise for the Department of Pediatrics at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Andrew Kung with pediatric leukemia researcher Melvyn Greaves
Honors
Childhood leukemia expert Melvyn Greaves received The Society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Prize at the 2018 Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK) commencement.
Blue cells containing small red and green dots on a black background
In the Lab
Multiple copies of a gene called <em>YES1</em> appear to be responsible for certain precision drugs losing their effectiveness.
This study demonstrates how clonal hematopoiesis (CH)–derived mutations could lead to erroneous reporting and treatment recommendations when tumor-only sequencing is employed. If data about the blood are not part of test results, mutations present in the blood may be misread as mutations in the tumor, which can potentially affect the therapies patients receive. Data presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology by Ahmet Zehir, PhD, Director of Clinical Bioinformatics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) was simultaneously published in <i>JAMA Oncology</i> on June 5.
Bioinformatician Ahmet Zehir stands at a whiteboard
Finding
A blood condition related to aging can lead to misinterpreting tumor data.
Crowded hall with ASCO signage
Roundup
Couldn't make it to the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting this year? Read this summary of some main takeaways.
medical oncologist Larry Norton
Q&A
The findings will change how women with intermediate-risk breast cancer are treated.
Zsofia Stadler presents at the ASCO meeting
Finding
Tumors with a biomarker called high microsatellite instability have been linked to inherited cancer mutations.
MSK Physician-in-Chief José Baselga presents at the ASCO meeting
Finding
A clinical trial provides evidence that blocking a protein called PI3K can be an effective treatment strategy for breast cancer.
MSK commencement
Event
Degrees were presented and awards were given at the 39th annual ceremony, held on May 30.