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2025 Apr 11

New Strategy May Enable Cancer Monitoring from Blood Tests Alone

A new, error-corrected method for detecting cancer from blood samples is much more sensitive and accurate than prior methods and may be useful for monitoring disease status in patients following treatment, according to a... Read more

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2025 Apr 01

Omega-6 Fatty Acid Promotes the Growth of an Aggressive Type of Breast Cancer

Linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid found in seed oils such as soybean and safflower oil, and animal products including pork and eggs, specifically enhances the growth of the hard-to-treat “triple negative” breast cancer... Read more

2025 Mar 28

AI Meets Oncology: New Model Personalizes Bladder Cancer Treatment

Leveraging the power of AI and machine learning technologies, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine developed a more effective model for predicting how patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer will respond to... Read more

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2025 Mar 27

$50 Million Gift from the Weill Family Foundation Establishes the Weill Cancer Hub East

New York, N.Y., and Princeton, N.J. (March 27, 2025)— With a mission to understand how nutrition and metabolism impact the body’s ability to control cancer, four leading research institutions have united under the Weill... Read more

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2025 Mar 10

FLIpping the Switch: Boosting Stem Cell Numbers for Therapies

A single molecular switch is essential for blood stem cells to enter an activated, regenerative state in which they produce new blood cells, according to a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The... Read more

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2025 Mar 04

Kidney Cancer: The Essentials You Should Know

Nearly 1 of 20 cancers in America is kidney cancer , according to the American Cancer Society . While the number of cases is on the rise, more people are surviving than ever before. “This cancer—in the majority of patients—... Read more

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2025 Feb 26

Preventing Cancer: The Essential Guide

According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer , 20 million people across the globe learned they had cancer in 2022. By 2040, the number of new diagnoses in a single year is expected to reach nearly 30 million... Read more

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2025 Feb 21

Islet Transplantation with Blood Vessel Cells Shows Promise to Treat Type 1 Diabetes

Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The new... Read more

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2025 Feb 18

Breast and Ovarian Cancer Prevention: Empowering Patients Through Support and Knowledge

Breast and ovarian cancers are two of the most common cancers affecting women, but with advancements in research and supportive care, patients have access to resources to fight these cancers . Drs. Shoshana Rosenberg , Laura... Read more

2025 Feb 13

Two Weill Cornell Medicine Faculty Members Elected to ASCI

Two Weill Cornell Medicine physician-scientists, Dr. Niroshana Anandasabapathy and Dr. Rohit Chandwani , have been elected members of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) for 2025. One of the nation’s... Read more

2025 Feb 11

Cancer’s Ripple Effect May Promote Blood Clot Formation in the Lungs

Blood clots form in response to signals from the lungs of cancer patients—not from other organ sites, as previously thought—according to a preclinical study by Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center... Read more

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2025 Jan 16

Three Institutional Scientists Receive Presidential Award

Three Weill Cornell Medicine scientists were honored this week with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the U.S. government’s highest commendation for outstanding early-career scientists and... Read more

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2025 Jan 13

Immune Complex Shaves Stem Cells to Protect against Cancer

A group of immune proteins called the inflammasome can help prevent blood stem cells from becoming malignant by removing certain receptors from their surfaces and blocking cancer gene activity, according to a preclinical... Read more

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2025 Jan 09

Innovators Encourage Scientists and Physicians to Dive into Technology Commercialization

When Dr. Tamatha Fenster received a call from a young patient requesting a refill on her Oxycodone for pelvic pain, she was faced with a dilemma: letting the patient remain in pain or refill a prescription and perpetuate an... Read more

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2025 Jan 06

CDC Grant Funds Initiatives for Breast Cancer Patients

Weill Cornell Medicine has received a five-year, $2.3 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to improve equitable access to care, quality of life and survival outcomes for young people with all... Read more

2024 Dec 19

Stomach Cancer: Causes, Prevention and Treatment

Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers are among the most widespread cancers in the world . The most common GI cancers include colorectal, liver (hepatocellular), esophageal , pancreatic and stomach cancer. Among the less common GI... Read more

2024 Dec 13

Putting the Brakes on Prostate Cancer Cells

Prostate cancer hijacks the normal prostate’s growth regulation program to release the brakes and grow freely, according to Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. The discovery , published Dec. 13 in Nature Communications,... Read more

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2024 Dec 10

Finding Innovative Ways to Address Kidney Cancer Leads to DoD Grant

Weill Cornell Medicine has received a $1.4 million, four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to investigate a new therapeutic approach for the most common form of kidney cancer. The grant is one of 10 Idea Awards... Read more

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2024 Dec 05

Anticancer Drugs Could Make Immunotherapies More Effective

An emerging class of anticancer drugs called EZH2 inhibitors may greatly enhance the potency of some cancer immunotherapies, according to a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicine lymphoma researchers. The inhibitors... Read more

2024 Dec 03

DNA Secreted by Tumor Cell Extracellular Vesicles Prompts Anti-Metastatic Immune Response

Specially packaged DNA secreted by tumor cells can trigger an immune response that inhibits the metastatic spread of the tumor to the liver, according to a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, Memorial Sloan... Read more