Your port may raise your skin about ½ an inch (1.2 centimeters). You may be able to feel it through your skin. Most people will not be able to tell that you have a port. Your port will not set off ...

Instructions for Drinking and Eating After Nissen Fundoplication or Hiatal Hernia Surgery After your surgery, you’ll slowly start drinking and eating again. You’ll follow the diets below as you’re ...

It’s a disturbing mystery that has drawn the attention of investigators from across Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Why are a growing number of young people under 50 being diagnosed with ...

100% Remission of Rectal Cancer These same remarkable results would be repeated for all 42 people — and counting — in the MSK clinical trial. In every case, the rectal cancer disappeared after ...

2. How common is CIPN? Peripheral neuropathy after chemotherapy is very common. Experts estimate it’s experienced by 30% to 50% of patients who receive these types of chemotherapy. The drugs most ...

Periods of fasting reprogram the immune system’s natural killer cells to better fight cancer, according to a new study in mice from researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). Fasting ...

Care Team At Memorial Sloan Kettering, doctors, nurses, and other specialists work together on treatment teams for each patient. This means that your care team is highly experienced in caring for ...

Lung cancer is the second-most common cancer and remains the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. But a variety of new treatments, many of them developed or tested at Memorial Sloan ...

Patients are put under anesthesia, and a rectal probe is placed which enables real-time imaging and treatment. After the machine takes an image of the prostate, the doctors outline the treatment area ...

A mastectomy is surgery to remove all your breast tissue to treat cancer. When your surgeons remove 1 breast, it’s called a unilateral mastectomy. If they remove both breasts, it’s called a bilateral ...

The approved age for getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV) has been steadily rising since the vaccine was introduced in 2006. The HPV vaccine’s safety has remained excellent, and ...

It’s not a question of which type of radiation therapy is best in general, but rather which therapy is best for the patient’s specific disease and quality-of-life concerns. We want to use the most ...