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genitourinary medical oncologist Robert Motzer
Q&A
Immunotherapy drugs called checkpoint inhibitors are effective against many cancers, including kidney cancer. Learn how these drugs are used to treat both early- and late-stage disease.
Mini Kamboj, MSK's Chief Medical Epidemiologist
Polio in NY: What You Should Know
Learn what detection of the polio virus in New York State means for you.
MSK medical oncologist Jonathan Rosenberg, who treats bladder cancer.
Antibody-drug conjugates and checkpoint inhibitors show promise as new therapies for bladder cancer.
Paige Arnold working in a lab
Paige Arnold, who will graduate from the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSK) next spring, has been awarded the 2022 Chairman’s Prize. The competitive award is presented annually and was established by GSK’s Board of Trustees Chair Emeritus Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., for whom the school is named.
MSK Kids patient Rihanna Plaza
Learn about MSK Kids patient Rihanna, who was born with a cancer caused by an NTRK gene mutation and received the targeted therapy larotrectinib.
MSK physician-scientist Charles Sawyers and SKI computational biologist Dana Pe’er
Researchers learn how prostate cancer cells change their type to survive treatment.
A bowl of ginseng root sitting next to a teapot.
Feature
Discover some natural remedies for mouth dryness (xerostomia) and mouth sores, common side effects of cancer treatment.
Two chimpanzees in a field
Finding
In an unusual collaboration, scientists from MSK and the American Museum of Natural History looked at how the BRCA2 gene differs between humans and chimps. Mutations in this gene are linked to an increased risk of certain cancers, including breast cancer.
physiatrist Jesuel Padro-Guzman
Q&A
Peripheral neuropathy is a common side effect of many types of chemotherapy. Learn about what it is, why it happens, and how to treat CIPN.
Scott Lowe
In the Lab
Rather than promoting genetic chaos, loss of p53 leads to an orderly progression of genetic changes that no one saw coming.