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On March 27th, 2011, we learned the unthinkable: our 2 1/2 year old granddaughter, Emma Zinberg, had cancer. Within 24 hours, she was a patient at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. While we had received an initial diagnosis of neuroblastoma at the hospital that found her tumor, the team of oncologists and surgeons at MSKCC [...]
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Research Suggests Doctors Should Consider Kidney-Sparing Surgery
A study of almost 1,500 kidney cancer patients treated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center suggests that surgery to spare as much kidney tissue as possible may improve overall survival in patients who also have reduced kidney ... Read Post
Abscopal Effect - When Radiation Also Destroys Non Targeted Tumors
In the March 8 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center report on an extremely rare phenomenon known as the abscopal effect, in cancer patients with melanoma, trea... Read Post
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Installs Two GE Healthcare Magnetic Resonance Systems
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), announced the installation of two new Optima™ MR450w wide bore magnetic resonance imaging systems at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City. The f... Read Post