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Spinal cord compression due to spinal metastases is a medical emergency. Modern treatment approaches have fundamentally shifted the paradigm from providing short-term palliation and pain relief to delivering durable tumor control with fewer morbidities than older approaches. Therefore, cancer patients who have symptoms of spinal cord compression should be referred for surgical evaluation as soon as possible.

… Thursday, June 14, 2018 Spinal cord compression due to spinal metastases is a medical emergency. Modern treatment approaches — minimally invasive surgical techniques and spinal stereotactic radiosurgery (SSRS) — have fundamentally shifted the paradigm from providing short-term palliation and pain relief

The test, developed at MSK, looks for alterations in 468 genes that are seen in both common and rare cancers.

… Wednesday, November 15, 2017 Summary The FDA’s authorization of MSK-IMPACT sets a precedent for future authorization of tests developed by both academic and commercial labs. The US Food and Drug Administration has announced the authorization of MSK-IMPACT™ . The test was developed by Memorial Sloan Kettering

Originally explored as a cancer drug, the tree-derived chemical is now being mined for its antiviral properties.

… Monday, February 8, 2021 Summary Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering in collaboration with scientists in Germany have discovered that an investigational cancer drug has powerful effects against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. An investigational cancer drug with roots in the Malaysian

Memorial Sloan Kettering scientists have engineered a tiny particle that could ferry drugs directly to the kidneys and prevent their uptake in other organs.

… Monday, June 8, 2015 Summary Ideas abound about how to develop smarter cancer drugs with the help of nanotechnology , using tiny materials with unusual chemical and physical properties. For renal cell carcinoma (RCC), a common form of kidney cancer , a new nanoparticle could make it possible to deliver

Learn how acupuncture is being used at the MSK Ralph Lauren Center in Harlem to reduce pain and other symptoms in people facing cancer.

… Thursday, January 29, 2026 This story was originally published in 2024 and has been updated with results from a study of the Ralph Lauren Integrative Medicine program published in JCO Oncology Practice.  Elizabeth Sosa knew she was in good hands when Charles Rico suggested acupuncture to help reduce

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center introduced a new, consumer-friendly web presence for www.mskcc.org (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and www.sloankettering.edu (Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), featuring an innovative platform and on-demand navigation for patients, caregivers, researchers, healthcare professionals, and graduate students, among other core audiences.

… Tuesday, May 5, 2015 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) introduced a new, consumer-friendly web presence for www.mskcc.org (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) and www.sloankettering.edu (Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Learn how computational biology and advances in artificial intelligence at MSK are improving cancer care from immunotherapy and radiation treatments to diagnostic scans and tests.

… Monday, June 10, 2024 The microscope. The petri dish. The X-ray. A handful of tools have radically changed the practice of medicine and biomedical research. Although easy to overlook, the computer microchip, with its layers of silicon and engineering wizardry, is without a doubt one of the most important

Learn how a young woman diagnosed with stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer had many treatment options because she came to MSK first.

… Monday, November 25, 2024 The diagnosis was earth-shattering, especially for someone who had never smoked..  Jhalene Mundin, a 35-year-old mother of two young children, was told in July 2023 that she had stage 4 (metastatic) non-small cell  lung cancer .  It had spread beyond her lungs and was considered

Descubra cómo una mujer joven diagnosticada con cáncer pulmonar de células no pequeñas en estadio 4 tuvo muchas opciones de tratamiento porque acudió primero a MSK.

… Monday, November 25, 2024 El diagnóstico fue devastador, especialmente para alguien que nunca había fumado. A Jhalene Mundin, de 35 años y madre de dos niños pequeños, le informaron en julio de 2023 que tenía  cáncer pulmonar de células no pequeñas en estadio 4 (metastásico) .  Se había diseminado más

Patients with early-stage, node-positive breast cancer whose nodes are pathologically tumor-free after neoadjuvant chemotherapy may safely skip post-mastectomy nodal irradiation without increasing the risk of invasive breast cancer recurrence or death, according to results from a clinical trial published recently in NEJM.

… Monday, August 18, 2025 Patients with early-stage, node-positive breast cancer whose nodes are pathologically tumor-free (ypN0) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy may safely skip post-mastectomy nodal irradiation without increasing the risk of invasive breast cancer recurrence or death, according to results