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The global clinical research community is facing a clear imperative to move beyond traditional manual data management methods in order to improve data capture, integrity, and exchange, while pursuing other related efficiencies.
… Tuesday, January 14, 2025 The global clinical research community is facing a clear imperative to move beyond traditional manual data management methods in order to improve data capture, integrity, and exchange, while pursuing other related efficiencies. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) has
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Vivian Strong, MD, FACS, the Iris Cantor Chair, addressed colleagues and gastric cancer experts from around the world at the International Gastric Cancer Congress 2022.
… Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Vivian Strong, MD, FACS , the Iris Cantor Chair, addressed colleagues and gastric cancer experts from around the world at the International Gastric Cancer Congress 2022 . Dr. Strong presented “Highlights of What is New in Surgery for Gastric Cancer” as part of the meeting’s
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Zvi Fuks has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
… Saturday, January 1, 2011 Summary Zvi Fuks has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Zvi Fuks has been elected a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Dr.
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Scientists are using a molecule from the immune system to combat this serious complication in a new way.
… Friday, January 15, 2016 Summary Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a complication of blood and marrow stem cell transplantation . A new study reveals how the patient’s immune system restores the intestinal lining following damage from GVHD and points to a strategy for a potential therapy to alleviate
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Mammography has shortcomings but the price is reasonable; MRI is more effective but expensive. Two new modalities — contrast-enhanced digital mammography (CEDM) and abbreviated breast MRI (AB-MRI) — may provide the best of both.
… Thursday, June 23, 2016 Since the mid-1980s, mammography has been the primary screening modality for breast cancer. While it has reduced mortality rates, there are some notable drawbacks. Mammography fails to detect as many as 30 percent of cancers because overlying normal breast tissue obscures them
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MSK’s Integrative Medicine Service focuses on empowering patients with practices — from acupuncture to music therapy — that fit seamlessly into your care plan.
… Thursday, April 10, 2025 A cancer diagnosis can make you feel as if the ground has shifted beneath you, throwing your life into a cycle of appointments, treatments, and scans. It’s common to feel waves of uncertainty or even disconnection from your own body. MSK’s Integrative Medicine Service empowers
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According to a large retrospective study co-led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, PTCy is an acceptable alternative to CNI-based prophylaxis in MUD HCT recipients and superior for MMUD HCT. These results will help improve minority donor participation in the NMDP registry.
… Wednesday, July 17, 2024 Post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (PTCy) led to similar overall survival (OS) and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)-free relapse-free survival (GRFS) in patients who received a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) from a matched unrelated donor (MUD) and those who received
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In a recent interview, MSK's Dr. Jeffrey Drebin addressed why it’s important for people to keep up with their routine screenings and not put off cancer treatment or surgery.
… Wednesday, July 15, 2020 Cancer care is essential care and screenings and treatments can’t wait. That was the message that MSK’s Chair of the Department of Surgery, Jeffrey Drebin, MD, PhD , shared during a recent interview with Spectrum News NY1 . Appearing via Skype with Roma Torre on the New York
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Tune in to today’s “MSK Science Spotlight.” The April 20 lecture, “A Single Cell Lens into the Roles of Cellular Plasticity in Development and Cancer,” will feature Dana Pe’er, PhD.
… Monday, April 20, 2020 Tune in to today’s “ MSK Science Spotlight .” The Sloan Kettering Institute’s online seminar series for the scientific community features illuminating lectures by today’s leaders in basic and translational biomedical science and reminds us all that the fight against cancer must
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Three second-year students -- Neha Bhagwat, John Halliday, and Ellen Hukkelhoven -- received Geoffrey Beene Graduate Student Fellowships.
… Thursday, October 1, 2009 Three second-year students — Neha Bhagwat, John Halliday, and Ellen Hukkelhoven — received Geoffrey Beene Graduate Student Fellowships. These fellowships were awarded by the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, which was established