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This new era of cancer research investigates how the disease in certain locations interacts with all the body’s systems. Focusing on cancer’s ecosystem promises to reveal lifesaving insights, especially into metastasis.
The routine use of epidural analgesia for patients with non-small cell lung cancer who undergo a minimally invasive lobectomy is not warranted.
Scientists are learning how estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer evolves to thwart hormonal therapies and are developing ways to stop it.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) has been recognized as the best cancer center in the Northeast, the number two hospital for cancer care in the nation, and the number one hospital nationally for urology care by U.S. News & World Report in its annual Best Hospitals listing.
Drug resistance is a formidable challenge in cancer treatment. A drug called enasidenib (Idhifa®) was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration last year for the treatment of people with a form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that’s driven by a mutation in the gene IDH2. About 15 percent of people with AML have this mutation. Research led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) reports that people who take enasidenib can develop resistance to it — in a way never seen before. Enasidenib works differently than most cancer drugs. Rather than killing leukemia cells, it turns them into normal blood cells. The discovery of this unique resistence may lead to more-precise treatments for people with AML in the future.
Because cancer is more treatable when it’s caught early, MSK’s new Precision Interception and Prevention initiative focuses on early detection.
A new mechanical ventilator system designed by anesthesiologists and biomedical engineers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) has the ability to support two intubated patients simultaneously while compensating for variability in each patient’s size, weight, and pulmonary needs.
Learn what to ask a cancer doctor at your first appointment, such as whether you need additional tests to clarify the diagnosis or guide your treatment.