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To recognize the beginning of Lung Cancer Awareness Month, MSK shared four important pieces of information for individuals at high risk of lung cancer and their loved ones.
… Friday, October 30, 2020 To recognize the beginning of Lung Cancer Awareness Month, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) today shared four important pieces of information for individuals at high risk of lung cancer and their loved ones. Around one in 16 Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer
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Researchers from MSK and Weill Cornell have found that two compounds appear to fight off infection with the Zika virus.
… Thursday, July 20, 2017 Summary Researchers from MSK and Weill Cornell have found that two compounds appear to fight off infection with the Zika virus. They made use of several lab technologies to test the drugs. Over the past few years, thousands of babies whose mothers were infected with the mosquito-borne
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… Saturday, September 19, 2009 Nineteen undergraduate students joined our community of scientists for ten weeks, working with faculty mentors who helped them to define and realize their research projects. The school welcomed our new class of PhD students, who have completed their first laboratory rotation
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Official rare cancer fundraising program of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to host its stationary-cycling events in 16 locations nationwide. Instructors from Equinox, Cycle for Survival’s founding partner, will lead the high-energy rides.
… Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Cycle for Survival, the official rare cancer fundraiser of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), has opened registration for the 2026 season of stationary-cycling events, and bikes are already more than 75% full. This special 20th anniversary year features 16 locations
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MSK Kids staff made some clever tweaks and a few adjustments to host the ultimate “mask-erade” prom.
… Wednesday, July 22, 2020 This year has been unprecedented in many ways, but it hasn’t stopped our MSK Kids and MSK Staff from celebrating and dancing! Each year, MSK Kids hosts MSK Kids Prom – an event where patients and staff wear fancy dresses, suits and their best face paint and dance the day away
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Read about Sandy Freiberg, who ran a marathon to honor his brother, Evan, who is in his fifth year of cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
… Wednesday, January 1, 2020 On September 13, Sandy Freiberg ran a marathon to honor his brother, Evan Freiberg, who is in his fifth year of cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Only Sandy didn’t run the race among a pack of people and with great fanfare at the finish line. He ran 26.2 miles entirely
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Learn about a new study led by MSK that suggests that children with cancer are no more likely than other kids to be infected with COVID-19 or to have severe symptoms when infected.
… Friday, May 15, 2020 Summary A study led by MSK sheds light on the risk of COVID-19 infection among children with cancer. A new study led by pediatric cancer specialists at Memorial Sloan Kettering suggests that children with cancer are no more likely than other kids to be infected with COVID-19 or to
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Metastasis remains the primary challenge to reducing cancer deaths worldwide. A new MSK study is providing unique insights that researchers say point to new therapeutic opportunities.
… Wednesday, October 30, 2024 Metastasis remains the primary challenge to reducing cancer deaths worldwide, says Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) gastrointestinal oncologist Karuna Ganesh, MD, PhD . That’s when a primary tumor — colorectal cancer, for example — spreads to a new part of the
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The historic clinical trial is a global effort between Obafemi Awolowo University, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, and Medserve in Nigeria and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States.
… Wednesday, February 4, 2026 A ground-breaking clinical trial aimed at transforming treatment options for patients with colorectal cancer in Nigeria is actively enrolling patients after gaining official approval by the National Health Research Ethics Committee (NHREC) and the National Agency for Food
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Memorial Sloan Kettering researchers are studying how drugs that reverse malfunctioning proteins may treat disease.
… Tuesday, August 3, 2021 Sloan Kettering Institute scientist Gabriela Chiosis , a member of the Chemical Biology Program , has devoted her research to studying how proteins take shape and interact with each other and how it can lead to disease when these proteins go awry. On August 3, 2021, she published