Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center News

A Conversation With Dr. Maria Theodoulou, associate attending physician on breast cancer medical service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.

For patients with leukemia and other hematological malignancies, transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells can be a powerfully effective therapy.

Edward J. Meyer, 75, an executive who once hawked toothpaste for Bristol-Myers and went on to manage how Sun Refining Co.

Modern workers have struck another form of "black gold": printer toner, part of the $50 billion per year companies may lose to employees stealing from the office, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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Key clinical results to be presented during both meetings include updated data from Infinity's Phase 1 study evaluating the safety, clinical activity and pharmacokinetics of IPI-145 in people with advanced hematologic malignancies .

Two drugs from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. shrank tumors in as many as half of patients with advanced melanoma, according to early research that may pave the way for cocktails that trigger the immune system to destroy cancer.

Exelixis, Inc. reiterated its slate of activities in conjunction with the 2013 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, which will be held May 31-June 4, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois.

For patients with leukemia and other hematological malignancies, transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells can be a powerfully effective therapy.

Scientists have discovered that the most dangerous cancer of the uterine lining closely resembles the worst ovarian and breast cancers, providing the most telling evidence yet that cancer will increasingly be seen as a disease defined primarily by its genetic fingerprint rather than just by the organ where it originated.

Jolie faced an 87 percent risk of developing breast cancer, but treatments have brought the risk down to less than 5 percent.

Nine weeks after Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy to prevent cancer, the actress had another surgery to reconstruct her breasts using implants.

Nine weeks after Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy to prevent cancer, the actress had another surgery to reconstruct her breasts using implants.

Ramsey Clark , A lawyer and former U.S. attorney general. He is urging the federal government to grant Lynne Stewart compassionate release from prison as she fights advanced stage cancer.

May 13, 2013 - Albuquerque, NM - Today the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and the University of New Mexico Cancer Center announced the recruitment of four world-renowned cancer physicians and scientists.

Nina Kramer, a part-time Stockbridge resident, describes her eight-year battle with cancer in her book, 'The harrowing Medical Journey of a Cancer Survivor.' Nina Kramer had enjoyed perfect health entering her early 60s until she was told by her doctor in 2001 she had bladder cancer.

Actinium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company that develops innovative targeted payload immunotherapeutics for treatment of advanced cancers, announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has allowed a key patent application in the Company's portfolio.

Rising Phoenix Repertory continues its Cino Nights Series of new work with Halley Feiffer 's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York City May 12 in New York City.

The event was launched by a cancer survivor who wanted to bring awareness of childhood cancer and the need for further research.

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