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Sloan Kettering Institute’s (SKI) Alexander Gitlin, MD, PhD of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) was recognized as a winner of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Early Independence Award.
MSK's Robert Motzer presented positive data from a phase III randomized study that assessed two different treatment combinations as first-line therapies that may benefit people with advanced kidney cancer.
Pediatric oncologists from around the world will gather in Lyon, France, from October 23 through 26, for the International Society of Paediatric Oncology’s annual meeting. Featuring new research and important discoveries — many led by MSK Kids researchers — the meeting will highlight the latest in the fields of pediatric oncology, including blood cancer, sarcoma, Wilms’ tumor, genomics, radiation oncology, and neuroblastoma.
Learn how to control weight gain during and after breast cancer treatment, from experts at MSK.
The inaugural Kravis WiSE Symposium will take place virtually July 8-20, 2020. Each talk will be broadcast as part of the MSK Science Spotlight series, which is available via livestream and open to all.
New MSK research discovered ferroptosis regulators that suggest therapeutic opportunities against hormone receptor-positive cancers; examined how tumor-associated macrophages might be turned against cancer; acquired new insights into joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis; developed a systems-level platform called epichaperomics to map changes in interactors among thousands of proteins involved in cancer-related processes; and investigated how artificial intelligence could help diagnose an invasive form of breast cancer.
MSK has joined with 68 of the nation’s top cancer centers in issuing a statement urging increased HPV vaccination for the prevention of cancer. This statement, signed by MSK Physician-in-Chief and Chief Medical Officer José Baslega, MD, PhD, and colleagues at NCI-designated cancer centers across the country, calls upon the nation’s physicians, parents, and young adults to take advantage of this rare opportunity to prevent many types of cancer. MSK head and neck and gynecologic cancer experts are available to discuss the importance of the HPV vaccine and risks of HPV-related cancers. Please email [email protected] to arrange an interview.
Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) to resect liver segments 7 and 8 is safe for select patients treated by experienced MIS hepatopancreatobiliary surgeons.
Researchers have discovered that cancer cells may hijack an immune response to spread from a primary tumor to distant organs.
Michael A. Foley, PhD, has been selected to lead the Tri-Institutional Therapeutics Discovery Institute, Inc., a pioneering collaboration of Weill Cornell Medical College, The Rockefeller University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.