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We use several different tests to diagnose and determine your child's neuroblastoma staging. Learn about our process now at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

… How is neuroblastoma diagnosed? If your child needs tests to make or confirm a diagnosis of neuroblastoma, our team is available to you immediately. We will see your child within 24 hours of your call to MSK Kids. When you arrive for your child’s appointment, we will perform a complete physical exam

Learn how we continue to check in after your active treatment for mesothelioma is done. We want to be sure that you’re healing well and managing any pain or other side effects.

… Follow-up care after treatment for mesothelioma at Memorial Sloan Kettering is very important for helping you live longer and healthier. The experts who helped treat you for mesothelioma will take care of you for the first two to three years after treatment. For example, you may find that managing symptoms

Bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma) usually does not cause symptoms until it has advanced to a later stage. However, early symptoms sometimes appear when a bile duct is blocked.

… Bile duct cancer usually causes few symptoms until it reaches an advanced stage stage and has spread to other organs and tissues. However, people with this disease may experience the following symptoms or signs, often because a tumor is blocking a bile duct. The following signs and symptoms may be caused

Learn how MSK doctors use chemotherapy and targeted therapies to treat bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma).

… Chemotherapy is a drug or a combination of drugs that kills cancer cells wherever they are in the body. You may receive chemotherapy before surgery to shrink a bile duct tumor. This is called neoadjuvant therapy. If you receive chemotherapy after surgery to destroy and cancer cells that may remain, it

After someone has had gastroesophageal reflux disease for many years, it can advance to Barrett’s esophagus, a condition that greatly increases the risk of developing cancer.

… After someone has had gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) for many years, it can advance to Barrett’s esophagus. Barrett’s is a way the esophagus defends itself: The cells in the lining of the esophagus start to change because they’ve been exposed to acid for many years. Barrett’s esophagus is considered

Chemotherapy can saves lives in many men with advanced testicular cancer.

… Chemotherapy can kill cancer cells throughout the body. This treatment saves the lives of about 7 out of every 10 people with advanced testicular cancer.  Your treatment team may recommend chemotherapy if the cancer is at an advanced  stage  or is likely to spread. Chemotherapy can also stop advanced

Find information about pancreatic neuroendocrine (islet cell) tumors, as well as Memorial Sloan Kettering’s approach to diagnosis and treatment. Treatment can include surgery, hormone therapy, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or other techniques.

… Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (also known as islet cell tumors or islet cell carcinoma ) are a type of neuroendocrine tumor found in the pancreas. Only 5 percent of pancreatic tumors arise in the islet cells. The vast majority of tumors found in the pancreas are adenocarcinoma, which is more commonly

Memorial Sloan Kettering has been at the forefront of developing innovative treatments. Learn more about our current neuroblastoma clinical trials and research at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

… Clinical trials evaluate the safety and effectiveness of new drugs or combinations of treatments. Many of the innovative therapies available at MSK Kids for children with neuroblastoma are investigational treatments being assessed in clinical trials. These include therapies that are not widely available

Find in-depth information about aggressive pituitary tumors and specialized aggressive pituitary tumor treatment options available at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

… Aggressive pituitary tumors are rare tumors that arise from the pituitary, a gland which is at the base of the skull. Most pituitary tumors that require treatment can be effectively treated with drugs that regulate hormones, surgery, and radiation. Aggressive pituitary tumors are the rare tumors that

Learn about chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, a treatment that redirects the body’s immune system to fight cancer.

… What is CAR T cell therapy? Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is a type of therapy that uses your immune system (immunotherapy). Your immune system’s first job is to help your body fight infections. T cells (white blood cells that are part of the immune system) tell your body what it should