Myth: PSA screening reduces prostate cancer mortality by about 1 in 1,000. PSA screenings have reduced deaths significantly more than 1 in 1,000. “This number is frequently cited, and it makes it look ...

Image-guided radiation therapy, or IGRT, is a type of cancer treatment that uses imaging technologies such as PET, MRI, and CT to more accurately and safely deliver radiation to cancer cells. The ...

The pervasive influence of the immune system on human health and disease underscores the importance of a mechanistic understanding of immune regulation under pathophysiological conditions such as ...

I am a surgeon who has worked at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) for more than a decade. My focus is taking care of people who have been diagnosed with cancers of the head and neck such ...

Identified that global, regional, and local inputs contribute to nuclear size regulation in multinucleated skeletal muscle fibers. Demonstrated that properly placed nuclei are critical for healthy ...

Un electroencefalograma (EEG) es una prueba no invasiva que se utiliza para medir y registrar la actividad eléctrica del ...

En este recurso se explica que es el retinoblastoma. También se explica cómo cuidar a su niño después de la terapia con láser oftálmico. En este recurso, las palabras “usted” y “su” se refieren a ...

Un radiólogo intervencionista (también llamado médico de IR) realizará su UFE. Un médico de IR cuenta con formación especializada en el uso de procedimientos guiados por imágenes para diagnosticar y t ...

How are new targeted therapies for specific genetic mutations improving lung cancer treatment? We are getting new targeted therapies approved every year for genes that were long thought to be ...

MSK physician-scientists Dr. Viviane Tabar and Dr. Lorenz Studer have developed a treatment for Parkinson’s disease that involves creating nerve cells from embryonic stem cells and transplanting them ...

Researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute have found that changes in an information-carrying molecule called messenger RNA can inactivate tumor-suppressing proteins and thereby promote cancer. The ...

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