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Find out what it’s like to undergo cancer treatment when you work at a cancer hospital like Memorial Sloan Kettering.

… Monday, October 8, 2018 Summary As Director of Case Management at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Laura Ostrowsky oversees discharge planning and follow-up care for people leaving the hospital. She has held the role for 19 years. She was diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in January 2018 and was treated

Following surgery to remove NF2 tumors in her brain, MSK patient Maggie Chess developed a sudden passion and talent for abstract painting, a rare outcome that has transformed her life.

… Wednesday, July 30, 2025 Maggie Chess holds a special place in her heart for the neurosurgeons at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Brain surgery at MSK, in 2021, saved Maggie’s life and gave her family much needed hope. But what makes Maggie’s case extraordinary is what she discovered post-surgery

Saad Usmani, MD, has been named Chief of the Myeloma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

… Wednesday, December 1, 2021 Saad Usmani, MD, has been named Chief of the Myeloma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). He joins MSK from the Levine Cancer Center in North Carolina and succeeds C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, who previously served in this role for six years. Dr. Usmani is

Along with Valentine's Day, February marks American Heart Month. MSK’s Vice Chair of Radiation Oncology, Dr Oren Cahlon talks on how his team are making radiation-induced heart disease “a thing of the past” for our breast cancer patients.

… Tuesday, February 13, 2018

All radiotherapy treatments for prostate cancer should be accompanied by image-guidance of the prostate position to rule out significant setup errors in fractional delivery.

… Monday, November 19, 2018 All radiotherapy treatments for prostate cancer should be accompanied by image-guidance of the prostate position to rule out significant setup errors in fractional delivery. The results of our most recent analysis of planning data for 102 patients treated consecutively at Memorial

Memorial Sloan Kettering's Boards of Overseers and Managers have announced the creation of the Bristol-Myers Squibb/James D. Robinson III Junior Faculty Chairs and have named the first two incumbents: Sloan Kettering Institute's Grégoire Altan-Bonnet and Songhai Shi.

… Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Summary Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Boards of Overseers and Managers have announced the creation of the Bristol-Myers Squibb/James D. Robinson III Junior Faculty Chairs and have named the first two incumbents: Sloan Kettering Institute’s Grégoire Altan-Bonnet and Songhai Shi. Memorial

James Rothman, who receives this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Randy Schekman and Thomas Südhof, conducted more than a decade of his seminal research at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

… Monday, October 14, 2013 Summary James Rothman, who receives this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Randy Schekman and Thomas Südhof, conducted more than a decade of his seminal research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Last week James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman, and Thomas C.

Meet Mary Wu, a patient financial services specialist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester.

… Tuesday, May 17, 2022 Mary Wu remembers the 2012 Rose Parade like it was yesterday. The roar of the spectators lining Colorado Boulevard as each float came into view. The warmth of the New Year’s Day sun. Her perch atop the Donate Life Float . “I can’t put it into words,” says Mary, a patient financial

MSK researchers have found that a genetic state in tumors called whole-genome doubling is connected with worse outcomes for people with cancer.

… Wednesday, July 18, 2018 Summary MSK-IMPACT™ has led to many important findings about cancer genomics. In a recent study, researchers found that a genetic state in tumors called whole-genome doubling is connected with worse outcomes for people with cancer. Healthy cells contain two copies of each gene

For the first time, researchers have found an association between the makeup of the microorganisms in the body before a bone marrow transplant and a patient’s survival afterward.

… Sunday, December 2, 2018 Summary For the first time, researchers have found that having a healthy balance of microorganisms in the body before a bone marrow transplant is associated with higher survival rates after the transplant. Update: On February 27, 2020, Dr. Peled, Dr. van den Brink, and their