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Michelle S. Bradbury
Researchers Create Smaller, Brighter Probe, Tailored for Clinical Molecular Imaging and Tumor Targeting

Researchers have developed a new generation of microscopic particles for molecular imaging, constituting one of the first promising nanoparticle platforms that may be readily adapted for tumor targeting and treatment in the clinic.
Harold Varmus
New Geoffrey Beene Gift to Memorial Sloan Kettering Puts Total Support Over $100 Million

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has announced the gift of a membership interest in Geoffrey Beene, LLC, the company that controls the business and fashion empire created by legendary designer Geoffrey Beene.
New Study Examines Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests and Suggests Screening May Be Stopped at Age 75

New findings from a Decision Analysis for the US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) suggest that routine colorectal cancer screenings can be stopped in patients over the age of 75.
Maureen Killackey, MD
Innovative Relationship Advances Cancer Care in New Jersey

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Summit Medical Group together announce a new collaborative relationship for the care of people with cancer.
James Blake
American Tennis Star James Blake to Launch Cancer Research Fund in His Father's Name at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

American tennis player and World No. 8 ranked James Blake will formally announce today the launch of the Thomas Blake, Sr., Memorial Research Fund, which he established to support cancer research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Robert Motzer, MD
Drug Fends Off Kidney Cancer Progression

New data from an international, multicenter Phase III clinical trial has found that the experimental targeted therapy everolimus (RAD001) significantly delays cancer progression in patients with metastatic kidney cancer whose disease had worsened on other treatments.
Researchers Learn How Signaling Molecule Orchestrates Breast Cancer's Spread

A study led by researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has uncovered how breast tumors use a particular type of molecule to promote metastasis - the spread of cancer cells.
Therapeutic Cloning Treats Parkinson's Disease in Mice

Research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has shown that therapeutic cloning, also known as somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), can be used to treat Parkinson's disease in mice.
Dr. Kenneth Offit, MD, MPH
At Home Genomic Tests for Disease Risk Premature

The recent marketing of "at home" genomic tests for disease risk may be premature, according to Dr. Kenneth Offit, MD, MPH, Chief of the Clinical Genetics Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC).
Chau Dang, MD
Media Advisory
Cardiac Effects Associated with Breast Cancer Treatment Appear Lower with Dose-Dense Delivery of Conventional Chemotherapy

A new pilot study by investigators at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center found that breast cancer patients can be treated safely with a "dose-dense" regimen of standard chemotherapy agents and the antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin®), a drug that has previously been shown to cause cardiac toxicity.