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A team of Memorial Sloan Kettering clinicians and computational biologists have compiled the largest catalog to date of genetic alterations that occur in prostate cancer.

… Friday, October 1, 2010 Summary A team of Memorial Sloan Kettering clinicians and computational biologists have compiled the largest catalog to date of genetic alterations that occur in prostate cancer. A team of clinicians and computational biologists have compiled the largest catalog to date of genetic

A new pilot study by investigators at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center found that breast cancer patients can be treated safely with a "dose-dense" regimen of standard chemotherapy agents and the antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin®), a drug that has previously been shown to cause cardiac toxicity.

… Thursday, March 6, 2008 A new pilot study by investigators at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) found that breast cancer patients can be treated safely with a “dose-dense” regimen of standard chemotherapy agents and the antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin®), a drug that has previously been shown

MSK ranked #15 across all companies and industries in New York State (NYS) and #2 in the NYS Healthcare & Social Industry.

… Friday, August 27, 2021 Forbes has named MSK one of America’s Best-In-State Employers 2021 . MSK ranked #15 across all companies and industries in New York State (NYS) and #2 in the NYS Healthcare & Social Industry. Earlier this year, Forbes ranked MSK #17 on its list of America’s Best Employers for

Thanks to MSK’s expertise in treating young people with cancer, 16-year-old high school athlete Sammy is back to doing what he loves.

… Thursday, June 13, 2024 Today Sammy C. is a healthy 16-year-old boy — a top varsity athlete who plays three sports. But only 18 months ago, his life was very different. Sammy was dealing with a neuroendocrine tumor , a rare and aggressive cancer, in the lower part of his colon. He and his family sought

Some children enjoy playing with blocks, dolls, and toy cars. Dr. Ying Liu, a gynecologic medical oncologist and attending in the Clinical Genetics Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering, was fascinated by the test tubes in her mother’s laboratory. Dr. Liu didn’t know it then, but holding those sleek glass cylinders was the same as looking into a crystal ball.

… Tuesday, May 31, 2022 Some children enjoy playing with blocks, dolls, and toy cars. Dr. Ying Liu , a gynecologic medical oncologist and attending in the Clinical Genetics Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering, was fascinated by the test tubes in her mother’s laboratory. Dr. Liu didn’t know it then, but

A multi-institutional study led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) shows that patients whose colorectal cancer has spread to the liver and who received chemotherapy directly to the liver through a pump in the abdomen (an approach called Hepatic Arterial Infusion or HAI) fare better than those who received systemic (intravenously administered) chemotherapy.

… Monday, February 27, 2006 A multi-institutional study led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) shows that patients whose colorectal cancer has spread to the liver and who received chemotherapy directly to the liver through a pump in the abdomen (an approach called Hepatic Arterial Infusion

Almost three-fourths of pediatric cancer survivors will have a chronic health problem within 30 years after the cancer diagnosis, with 40 percent experiencing a serious, life-threatening, disabling, or fatal condition, according to investigators from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and other institutions.

… Wednesday, October 11, 2006 Almost three-fourths of pediatric cancer survivors will have a chronic health problem within 30 years after the cancer diagnosis, with 40 percent experiencing a serious, life-threatening, disabling, or fatal condition, according to investigators from Memorial Sloan Kettering

A team of researchers led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and collaborators at Emory University are shedding new light on deadly fungal infections that develop in bone marrow transplant patients.

… Friday, August 2, 2024 A team of researchers led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and collaborators at Emory University are shedding new light on deadly fungal infections that develop in bone marrow transplant patients. Invasive fungal infections represent a major cause of infectious illness

Research has shown that quitting tobacco use immediately improves health and that tobacco treatment programs make it easier to quit than going it alone.

… Thursday, October 3, 2024 Smoking cigarettes is known to cause at least 12 different types of cancer — not only  lung cancer and  head and neck cancers , but cancers of the  esophagus ,  pancreas ,  bladder ,  colon ,  rectum ,  cervix , and more. Research has shown that quitting tobacco use immediately

La investigación ha demostrado que dejar el consumo de tabaco mejora la salud de inmediato y que los programas de tratamiento del tabaquismo facilitan dejarlo más que intentarlo por su cuenta.

… Thursday, October 3, 2024 Se sabe que fumar cigarrillos causa al menos 12 tipos diferentes de cáncer, no solo  cáncer pulmonar y de  cabeza y cuello , sino también cáncer de  esófago ,  páncreas ,  vejiga ,  colon ,  recto ,  cuello uterino , entre otros. La investigación ha demostrado que dejar el consumo