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The Memorial Sloan Kettering – Hackensack Meridian Health Partnership has formed an Immunology Research Collaboration to support innovative investigations into the power of the immune system to fight cancer.
… Tuesday, June 9, 2020 As part of the Memorial Sloan Kettering – Hackensack Meridian Health Partnership, the two organizations have formed an Immunology Research Collaboration. Through this joint initiative, researchers can apply for funding to support innovative investigations to explore the power of
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An antibody that targets a prostate cell protein shows potential for designing safer, more effective prostate cancer therapies.
… Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Summary Current prostate cancer drugs often lose their effectiveness over time. A new approach involves using an antibody to deliver toxic radioactive particles selectively to prostate cancer cells. There are many effective prostate cancer drugs, but a major challenge is that
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An interdisciplinary team from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has shown how antibiotics can disrupt the normal, healthy balance of microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract.
… Friday, April 1, 2011 Summary An interdisciplinary team from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has shown how antibiotics can disrupt the normal, healthy balance of microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract. An interdisciplinary team from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has shown that antibiotics
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Our study, published recently in the Annals of Oncology, suggests that the greatest determinants of COVID-19 severity were patient features and comorbidities, such as a history of heavy smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
… Thursday, July 16, 2020 COVID-19 was severe in patients with lung cancer, but deaths were mainly related to patient-specific features, not cancer-specific features or treatments, according to our retrospective study of 102 patients with lung cancer and COVID-19 diagnoses at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
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Within moments of speaking with Lucy Fleming, you notice she is always smiling. It’s a bright smile that radiates warmth. Lucy channels this positive energy as manager of the Patient Access Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK).
… Tuesday, June 7, 2022 Lucy with her family Lucy with her family Within moments of speaking with Lucy Fleming, you notice she is always smiling. It’s a bright smile that radiates warmth. Lucy channels this positive energy as manager of the Patient Access Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Learn about what DNA repair looks like under a microscope.
… Friday, May 19, 2017 Summary When DNA is damaged, a cell stops dividing and recruits “lifeguard proteins” and repair proteins to get its life cycle back on track. The first microscope was invented almost 500 years ago, when two Dutch scientists placed lenses in a tube and found that they could magnify
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MSK investigators report exciting results for a new molecule that can block 16 different mutated forms of the KRAS protein. In the lab, the compound was effective against many cancer cell lines and in mouse models of lung cancer and colorectal cancer.
… Wednesday, May 31, 2023 KRAS was one of the first cancer genes ever discovered, but for a long time the cancer-causing KRAS protein was considered “undruggable” with targeted therapy. That started to change in May 2021, when the Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to sotorasib (
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Cycle for Survival, the official rare cancer fundraising event of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), will begin its 2024 signature team stationary-cycling events. As the founding partner of Cycle for Survival, Equinox will have its instructors leading high-energy rides across the country. 100% of the funds raised go directly to rare cancer research at MSK.
… Friday, February 2, 2024 Cycle for Survival, the official rare cancer fundraiser for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), will kick off its annual team stationary-cycling fundraising events this weekend. Its community of people with rare cancers, survivors, caregivers, supporters, doctors, researchers
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An analysis of germline DNA in people with advanced cancer finds that inherited mutations may be more common than expected in this group.
… Tuesday, September 5, 2017 Summary An analysis of germline DNA in people with advanced cancer finds that inherited mutations may be more common than expected in this group. The findings have implications for genetic counseling and screening. Memorial Sloan Kettering’s genomic-sequencing test, called
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September is Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month and at MSK, we continue to work to advance research to bring about better treatments and awareness to our youngest and most vulnerable patients not only in September, but every day.
… Tuesday, September 1, 2020 When we think about progress in fighting cancer, some of the most hopeful stories over the last few years have involved advances in treating children diagnosed with pediatric cancers. Once uniformly fatal, today, many children are thriving, beating the odds that once were stacked