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Learn how a bladder cancer specialist diagnosed with a very rare form of the disease turned to MSK for its expertise.

… Friday, May 26, 2017 Summary Burt Needles had been practicing urologic oncology for 30 years when he was diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of bladder cancer . Realizing he needed treatment by doctors who had experience with this disease, he turned to MSK. Burt Needles was not worried when the first

Learn why it's important to get a flu shot this year.

… Friday, September 13, 2024 Anyone can get the flu, which is why everyone should get a flu shot. The flu can be an especially serious illness for people with cancer and their caregivers. Memorial Sloan Kettering infectious disease specialist Monika Shah answers common questions that people with cancer

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) experts shared the results of their cutting-edge research at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2023, held in Madrid, Spain, October 20 to 24, 2023. Highlights included promising advances for difficult-to-treat gastric, breast, and head and neck cancer, and a recent molecular genetics discovery.

… Wednesday, October 25, 2023 Update: Lead author Dr. Bob Li and international colleagues published this study in Lancet Oncology in May 2024. It is the first tumor-agnostic study of a HER2-directed antibody-drug conjugate in patients with solid tumors harboring activating HER2 mutations. The results showed

Dose-dense chemotherapy calls for less time between doses compared with a standard treatment plan.

… Wednesday, December 6, 2017 VIDEO | 01:09 Larry Norton Explains the Development of Dose-Dense Chemotherapy and His Hopes for the Future Hear medical oncologist Larry Norton describe how dose-dense chemotherapy was developed for breast cancer and his hopes for the future of research. Video Details Summary

How cryo-electron microscopy is providing scientists at MSK with an unprecedented view of the wild and wiggly microcosm inside our cells.

… Friday, September 20, 2024 Boxy, sleek, and fronted with dark glass, it looks more like a 10-foot-tall wine fridge than a multimillion-dollar microscope. But this technological marvel is providing scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) with an unprecedented view of the wild and wiggly

A protein in blood vessels that plays a role in cancer metastasis is a promising target for delivering cancer drugs to tumors using nanoparticles.

… Thursday, July 7, 2016 Summary A major challenge in cancer treatment is making sure therapies destroy cancer cells without harming normal tissues. MSK researchers who are developing new types of nanotechnology to deliver cancer drugs have found a promising target — a protein called P-selectin that can

Learn how radiation oncologists at Memorial Sloan Kettering are making radiation therapy for metastatic cancer more effective, with fewer side effects, including a new advance called ECHO.

… Thursday, July 1, 2021 With potent, knifelike beams that can sear cancer cells yet spare healthy tissue, there’s a growing arsenal of weapons pioneered by Memorial Sloan Kettering’s radiation oncologists to reach tumors that have recurred deep inside delicate regions of the body. Radiation oncologist

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

… Thursday, October 15, 2020 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) announces the following awards and appointments: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Receives Press Ganey 2020 Pinnacle of Excellence Award Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center MSK was awarded Press Ganey’s 2020 Pinnacle of

A new study sheds light on what enables breast cancer cells to spread to the brain and presents a potential target for drugs.

… Tuesday, August 19, 2014 Summary A new study sheds light on what enables breast cancer cells to spread to the brain and presents a potential target for drugs. Most cancer deaths occur when the disease spreads, or metastasizes, from the original tumor site to a distant location. In breast cancer patients

Physician-scientist Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, spoke to 2013 graduates of the “tenderness and tension” inherent in scientific discovery.

… Friday, May 17, 2013 Summary Physician-scientist Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer , spoke to 2013 graduates of the “tenderness and tension” inherent in scientific discovery. “Newspapers may bring us news of a scientific-industrial complex that is increasingly