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Explore the ways that Memorial Sloan Kettering can help you physically and emotionally cope with having secondary liver cancer.

… Fighting cancer can be overwhelming. Our experts are skilled in identifying and treating symptoms and complications that can develop with the treatment of liver metastases. We also have services to help you cope with the emotional and psychological aspects of living with secondary liver cancer. Rehabilitation

… Targeted therapies are part of newer treatments called precision medicine. Targeted therapies only target cancer cells and are tailored to the exact kind of tumor you have. Many older cancer treatments kill cancer cells, but also healthy cells. These treatments work very well but have side effects and

Learn about the techniques and skill of our team of surgeons who focus on removing liver cancer metastases.

… Many of the major blood vessels pass behind or through the liver, essentially connecting it to the heart. Additional care must be taken during surgery because the liver can tear easily and bleed a lot when injured. Surgery to remove metastatic liver tumors presents a number of challenges. We have a team

MSK has many doctors and scientists who are studying the best ways to prevent and treat GVHD.

… MSK has many doctors and scientists who are studying the best ways to prevent and treat graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Much of this research is focused on methods to prevent GVHD by removing immune cells called T cells from the donor graft — a process known as T cell depletion. We are also evaluating

This information is about the Gastric Cancer Precursor Lesion Registry at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK). We’ll explain what it is, and why we invite you to join.

… About the Gastric Cancer Precursor Lesion Registry MSK is researching what causes gastric cancer in people who have risk factors for this cancer. A risk factor is anything that raises your chances of getting a disease. A precursor (pree-KER-ser) means something that is not yet cancer but can become cancer

Find out how MSK specialists can help you stay healthy and manage any side effects from treatment for uterine sarcomas.

… At Memorial Sloan Kettering, it’s one of our priorities to continue to check in with you once your active treatments are over. We want to be sure you’re healing well and managing any side effects, and to watch for any signs that your cancer is returning. As part of our medical follow-up care for uterine

Meet Memorial Sloan Kettering’s renowned team of salivary gland tumor doctors, surgeons and other experts who specialize in diagnosing, treating and caring for patients with salivary gland cancer.

… Memorial Sloan Kettering is home to a multidisciplinary team of compassionate doctors and other experts who specialize in treating salivary gland cancer. The team includes head and neck surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals

Surgery is an important part of diagnosis and treatment for endometrial (uterine) cancer and may cure the illness in women who have the disease in an early stage.

… Pioneer approach for determining where gynecologic cancers are likely to spread first MSK surgeons pioneered an approach for determining where gynecologic cancers are likely to spread first, allowing them to remove a much smaller number of lymph nodes and reduce the complications of surgery in women

For people with bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma) who cannot be treated with surgery, our doctors use minimally invasive procedures to ease pain and discomfort.

… Many people are not candidates for surgery by the time bile duct cancer is diagnosed. However, minimally invasive, image-guided procedures can help improve their quality of life by allowing bile to flow through or drain out of a bile duct that is blocked by a tumor. Our surgeons and experts in interventional

We use the TNM system to determine how advanced your tumor is.

… To get an accurate diagnosis, we must learn the stage and tumor type. Then you and your care team can choose a treatment that’s right for you.   MSK doctors use the results of many tests to diagnose a germ cell tumor. They learn the stage of the disease and if it has spread.   Our doctors use the TNM