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Find out how we use chemotherapy and hormone therapy to treat endometrial (uterine) cancer.

… Based on the type of tumor and stage of your endometrial (uterine) cancer, we may recommend that you undergo chemotherapy to ensure cancer cells that might remain following surgery for endometrial cancer are eliminated, or to treat disease that has spread (metastasized). We led the way in demonstrating

Find out how cancer can develop in a woman’s ovaries, fallopian tubes, and peritoneum. Learn how we’re improving the outlook for people ovarian cancer.

… VIDEO | 00:33 Learn more about MSK’s team approach to treating ovarian cancer Want to learn more about ovarian cancer? MSK surgeon Ginger Gardner explains how we can help. Video Details About Ovarian Cancer You may be reading this because you or someone you care about has been diagnosed with ovarian

Diagnosis is a key first step in making sure your doctor recommends the best treatment plan for your specific type of soft tissue sarcoma.

… Getting an accurate diagnosis is crucial to getting the best care for soft tissue sarcoma. By making absolutely sure that we have diagnosed the correct sarcoma type , we can better determine the most effective treatment approach for you. Diagnosing soft tissue sarcoma is not straightforward. When people

There are many types of histiocytosis. A correct diagnosis is important to make sure we choose the treatment that's best for the type of histiocytosis you have.

… There are several types of histiocytosis. They often have similar symptoms, which can make it hard to get a correct histiocytosis  diagnosis . Histiocytosis affects people of all ages. In children, the most common types of histiocytosis are:   Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Learn how our doctors combine their expertise with state-of-the-art treatments for people with metastatic brain tumors.

… To create your treatment plan, our experts assess the number and location of tumors and your overall health. We may recommend surgery ,  radiation , or a combination to treat your disease. Most brain metastases do not get better with chemotherapy, so we rarely recommend it. Your Treatment Plan Before

Memorial Sloan Kettering is home to pathologists, oncologists, surgeons, and other physicians who specialize in diagnosing gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors accurately and developing a personalized treatment plan for each patient.

… At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, our doctors are working to improve the understanding and treatment of neuroendocrine tumors of the gastrointestinal system. Neuroendocrine tumors act quite differently — and, as a result, are managed differently — than other types of tumors. Making an accurate

Women can access new treatments for endometrial (uterine) cancer treatments that might not be available elsewhere through our program of clinical trials.

… Doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering are constantly working to improve treatment for endometrial (uterine) cancer through clinical trials. Participating in a clinical trial may give you access to treatments that are not widely available elsewhere. Here you can find a continually updated listing of our

Learn the symptoms of Wilms’ tumor and other kidney tumors in children and how these tumors are diagnosed at MSK Kids.

… What are the symptoms of a kidney tumor? Some kidney tumors don’t cause any symptoms. They can be found during a routine exam, when a child’s doctor feels a lump in the belly. When a tumor does cause symptoms, they may include abdominal pain, blood in the urine, and/or high blood pressure. If your child

At Memorial Sloan Kettering, the primary ovarian cancer treatments are surgery and chemotherapy. Learn more about these treatments and new approaches.

… More than ever before, refinements in surgical techniques and how we care for women after surgery are improving outcomes for women at all stages of ovarian cancer . At Memorial Sloan Kettering, our treatment approach for you will depend in large part on the stage of your cancer. When diagnosed early,

We’ve led the way in developing an innovative approach to safely delivering high doses of radiation to parts of the body affected by mesothelioma.

… In addition to innovations we’ve made in safely delivering radiation therapy, Memorial Sloan Kettering often has radiation-related clinical trials open for enrollment to people with mesothelioma. The radiation approach we recommend for you depends on what type of mesothelioma you have. Radiation Therapy