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As a financial services specialist at MSK, Charlene Jerome helps patients overcome financial barriers to treatment by hunting for free drugs, deep discounts, and financial aid so patients can focus on healing.

… Friday, June 6, 2025 Charlene Jerome, a specialist in patient financial services, is a superhero in the eyes of one of the many patients she’s helped. So much so that patient Melissa Thompson sings her praises. Literally.   Melissa surprised Charlene with an original rap song she titled “Queen Charlene

Of the estimated 1.5 million people diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States, more than 126,000 are between the ages of 20 and 45. Many young cancer patients want to have children after their treatment is completed, and many will be able to have children naturally at that time. However, some patients will lose their ability to conceive a child without the help of procedures designed to assist with reproduction. Unfortunately, many young patients are not adequately informed of and prepared for the risks to fertility that may accompany cancer and some cancer treatments.

… Thursday, October 1, 2009 Of the estimated 1.5 million people diagnosed with cancer each year in the United States, more than 126,000 are between the ages of 20 and 45. Many young cancer patients want to have children after their treatment is completed, and many will be able to have children naturally

MSK held an Information Session for Patients and Caregivers with the goal of helping people cope with the unique experience of managing a cancer diagnosis or treatment, and facing survivorship and caregiving, during the holiday season.

… Tuesday, December 22, 2020 MSK held an Information Session for Patients and Caregivers with the goal of helping people cope with the unique experience of managing a cancer diagnosis or treatment, and facing survivorship and caregiving, during the holiday season. The session was moderated by William Breitbart

An international collaboration of researchers is advancing precision medicine for men with advanced prostate cancer.

… Thursday, May 21, 2015 An international collaboration of researchers is advancing precision medicine for men with advanced prostate cancer. The researchers, led by Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD, and Charles L. Sawyers, MD, co-leaders of the Stand Up to Cancer-Prostate Cancer Foundation Dream Team, sequenced

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) experts presented breakthrough findings in several areas of cancer research at the 2022 Annual ASCO meeting, focusing on rectal, breast, leptomeningeal metastasis, pancreatic, and lung cancers.

… Thursday, June 9, 2022 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) experts presented breakthrough findings in several areas of cancer research at the 2022 ASCO Annual Meeting held June 3 to 7, 2022. Highlights of practice-changing study results in rectal cancer, breast cancer, leptomeningeal metastasis

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announces its most recent awards and appointments for the institution’s physicians, scientists, nurses, and staff.

… Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announces the following awards and appointments: Atefeh Riazi Named 2022 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Most Influential Women in Health IT Award Recipient Atefeh Riazi Atefeh “Atti” Riazi , Senior Vice

A team led by MSK molecular biologist Scott Lowe is making progress against fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma.

… Wednesday, November 22, 2017 Summary Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering have developed a mouse model of a rare type of liver cancer. It should aid the search for effective therapies. Some diseases are rare. Others are ultrarare. But if you have an ultrarare condition, that qualifier is little consolation

Meet Vanessa Tran, a nurse turned volunteer who uses art to support healing.

… Tuesday, December 31, 2019 Vanessa Tran folding paper cranes Inspired by the children’s book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Vanessa Tran folded 1,000 origami cranes. Photo: Vanessa Tran Vanessa Tran posing with a locker full of paper cranes The paper cranes are stacked neatly in her MSK locker

The award recognizes his lifetime contributions to the field of life sciences, especially related to the training of Chinese scientists who have returned to faculty positions in China.

… Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Dinshaw Patel , who holds the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Chair in Experimental Therapeutics and is a Member of the Structural Biology Program at MSK, is the recipient of the inaugural C.C. Tan Life Science International Collaboration Award. He was chosen in recognition of his

Meet Chasity Burrows Walters, an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) patients and has made it her mission to help shape how Memorial Sloan Kettering cares for transgender patients.

… Friday, June 11, 2021 Chasity Burrows Walters is in a continuous state of reinvention. She has had “a million weird jobs” — designed her own clothing line, owned a store, tended bonsai trees — and followed her passions wherever they’ve led. She understands the need of every person to find their true