There are several different types of radiation therapy. The type that may be recommended for you depends on a variety of factors, such as your cancer, its stage, and your treatment goals. Radiation ...

A new wave of immuno-therapies is reshaping the fight against cancer, turning the body’s own immune system into a powerful ...

According to the results of the early study, published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, 92% of patients who received only an immune-based treatment to help their own immune ...

Radiation therapy works by using high-energy X-rays to kill cancer cells. MSK offers precise radiation therapy that kills throat cancer cells with fewer side effects from radiatio ...

A triple drug approach that blocks the KRAS pathway at three points eliminated pancreatic tumors and prevented resistance in ...

Finding an effective treatment for osteosarcoma, the most common type of bone cancer in children and young adults, has ...

A TOPOGRAPH-based hierarchy stratifies biomarker–drug pairs from regulatory/positive trial evidence (tiers 1–3A) to repurposing across histotypes (3B), preclinical/early data (4), and suspected ...

Bladder cancer is mainly urothelial carcinoma, with non-muscle-invasive and muscle-invasive types, and smoking as a key risk factor. Diagnosis involves cystoscopy, biopsy, urine cytology, and imaging ...

Surgery is usually the main treatment for basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma as well as most types of melanoma. Other times, surgery is used together with other treatment types.

Pooled across 34 studies data from 4.5+ million women showed that MHT use increased breast cancer odds by 15% versus non-use, ...

When Kevin Tougher was diagnosed with nasal cavity cancer at 39, he faced the possibility of losing his nose to surgery. A groundbreaking treatment at MSK changed everything—preserving both his health ...