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Cards are a longstanding Valentine’s tradition — and The Scarlett Fund, with help from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center employees, is using cards to make sure that patients and staff will be feeling the love for a long time to come.

… Tuesday, February 15, 2022 Jason holding a card Jason Giani, a patient of Jia Li at MSK Commack, received about 100 cards. Elizabeth Rodriguez, Diane Reidy, and Jennifer Tota posing with cards Elizabeth Rodriguez (left), Diane Reidy-Lagunes (center), and Jennifer Tota delivered cards to patients and

Gift from Jamie C. Nicholls and O. Francis Biondi will support MSK’s commitment to disparities research, expanded access to cancer care for underserved communities, and training diverse leaders in oncology.

… Monday, February 8, 2021 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) today announced the newly established Nicholls-Biondi Chair for Health Equity . This permanently endowed chair is dedicated to improving outcomes for patients from medically underserved communities and building a base of knowledge

Because people with cancer have a higher-than-normal risk of developing infections, our infection control experts have developed a number of innovative programs.

… Tuesday, October 18, 2016 Summary Because cancer treatments can weaken the immune system, infections are a common complication during cancer treatment. MSK has implemented a number of programs to protect patients from infections. One of the biggest complications for people receiving chemotherapy , especially

This story answers common questions about how your gut microbiota impacts your health, how to protect it, and the impact it has on diseases like cancer.

… Thursday, June 8, 2023 You may have heard the terms “gut microbiota” and “microbiome” and wondered what they mean and why they matter. Many researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are studying how they influence the health of people with cancer and the general population, too. Here

Proton therapy offers a way to treat pediatric cancers more safely.

… Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Summary Children are especially sensitive to the side effects of conventional radiation therapy. For some pediatric cancers, proton therapy can be used to destroy tumors while minimizing risks. Radiation therapy is quite effective at shrinking or eliminating tumors. But doctors

Learn how MSK helped a man with stage 4 stomach (gastric) cancer using checkpoint inhibitors, a type of immunotherapy that also treats many other cancers.

… Thursday, July 3, 2025 Antonio Lekhrajmal knew his diagnosis of advanced  stomach cancer — also called gastric cancer — was extremely serious. He credits his doctor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) gastrointestinal oncologist Yelena Janjigian, MD , with being upfront with him, and treating

Physicians and scientists from MSK presented advances in transplantation and cellular therapies at the Tandem Meetings, a joint event hosted by the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy and the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research.

… Tuesday, February 25, 2025 Physicians and scientists from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) presented advances in transplantation and cellular therapies at the Tandem Meetings, a joint event hosted by the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy and the Center for International

Chris Lee’s story begins in the 1940s, when his maternal grandfather boarded a ship in China headed to America.

… Friday, May 27, 2022 Chris Lee’s story begins in the 1940s, when his maternal grandfather boarded a ship in China headed to America. Like tens of millions of immigrants, Mr. Wong entered the U.S. via Ellis Island Immigration Station, with the “hopes of making a better life for his family and their future

Learn how noninvasive prenatal tests designed to screen for genetic abnormalities in the fetus may detect the presence of cancer in pregnant women.

… Monday, October 6, 2025 Once reserved for high-risk pregnancies, noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPTs) that screen for genetic abnormalities have been the standard of care since 2020. Most pregnant women — some 2 million a year — elect to have the test. Now a new study has found that in some cases, NIPT

In an unusual collaboration, scientists from MSK and the American Museum of Natural History looked at how the BRCA2 gene differs between humans and chimps. Mutations in this gene are linked to an increased risk of certain cancers, including breast cancer.

… Wednesday, August 31, 2022 Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives, descending from the same species as humans more than 6 million years ago. The fact that we share 98.8% of our genes with chimps explains fascinating similarities in our behaviors and our bodies. But the remaining 1.2% of genes explains