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The new Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Imaging Center have opened, offering patients the most advanced outpatient services for cancer diagnosis and breast cancer treatment and detection.
… Monday, October 5, 2009 The new Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and the MSKCC Imaging Center have opened, offering patients the most advanced outpatient services for cancer diagnosis and breast cancer treatment and detection. VIDEO | 5:00 Virtual Tour
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Craig B. Thompson, MD, President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), has been named to City & State’s 2022 Health Care Power 100 list.
… Wednesday, January 26, 2022 Craig B. Thompson, MD , President and CEO of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), has been named to City & State ’s 2022 Health Care Power 100 list . The prestigious Health Care Power list recognizes the most influential public health officials, hospital executives
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A new study from Kenneth Offit, MD, Chief of the Clinical Genetics Service and Robert and Kate Niehaus Chair in Inherited Cancer Genomics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), finds that more than half of inherited cancer gene mutations in people with advanced cancer are not detected using traditional methods based on family history.
… Tuesday, September 5, 2017 Bottom Line A new study from Kenneth Offit, MD , Chief of the Clinical Genetics Service and Robert and Kate Niehaus Chair in Inherited Cancer Genomics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), finds that more than half of inherited cancer gene mutations in people with
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Although distraction osteogenesis is commonly employed in regular orthopedic surgery, its use in cancer patients is currently limited. But research shows that these durable reconstructions can provide superior opportunities for better long-term limb function and growth in this cohort.
… Friday, August 10, 2018 Although distraction osteogenesis is commonly employed in regular orthopedic surgery, its use in cancer patients is currently limited. But research shows that these durable reconstructions can provide superior opportunities for better long-term limb function and growth compared
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Nearly 400 adults and children have received umbilical cord blood transplants at MSK. These transplants offer the best chance of a cure for blood cancer in patients who are unable to find a matched donor, often due to their non-European ancestry.
… Thursday, September 15, 2022 For some people with blood cancer, getting a stem cell or bone marrow transplant from a donor offers the best chance of a cure. It’s called an allogeneic transplant . But finding a donor who’s the right match can be difficult for many people — especially those of southern
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Casi 400 adultos y niños han recibido trasplantes de sangre del cordón umbilical en MSK. Estos trasplantes ofrecen la mejor posibilidad de cura para el cáncer de sangre en pacientes que no pueden encontrar un donante compatible, a menudo debido a su ascendencia no europea.
… Thursday, September 15, 2022 Para algunas personas con cáncer de sangre, recibir un trasplante de células madre o de médula ósea de un donante ofrece la mejor posibilidad de curación. Se llama trasplante alogénico . Pero encontrar un donante que sea compatible puede ser difícil para muchas personas,
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Learn why surgery is still a good option for older patients with early-stage lung cancer.
… Wednesday, November 2, 2016 Summary Older patients are sometimes reluctant to have surgery for lung cancer because they mistakenly believe the risk outweighs the benefits. A new study shows that older patients who receive surgery at MSK usually survive their lung cancer for more than five years and are
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New MSK research investigates harnessing the power of ferroptosis to spread cell death; reports how an MSK artificial intelligence (AI) model could help improve patient safety; and uses AI to reveal country-specific drivers of global cancer outcomes.
… Monday, February 23, 2026 New research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) investigates harnessing the power of ferroptosis to spread cell death; reports how an MSK artificial intelligence (AI) model could help improve patient safety; and uses AI to reveal country-specific drivers of
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MSK researchers have developed a new open-source computational method, dubbed Spectra, which improves the analysis of single-cell transcriptomic data — and made it freely available to researchers around the world.
… Thursday, October 5, 2023 Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have developed a new open-source computational method, dubbed Spectra, which improves the analysis of single-cell transcriptomic data. By guiding data analysis in a unique way, Spectra can offer new insights into the
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The high-resolution views provided by cryo-electron microscopy are helping scientists learn how proteins and DNA collaborate to repair broken DNA.
… Tuesday, December 1, 2020 Summary Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute have gained an important insight into how cells repair broken DNA, a process fundamental to life that sometimes goes awry in cancer. A landmark in cancer research was the discovery, in the early