MSKCC in the News: July 25 – August 7

  • MSKCC’s Dr. Larry Norton was quoted in a U.S. News & World Report article about the resulting debate that occurred after a panel of experts writing in the July 29 online edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association expressed that widespread cancer screening programs turn up too many growths that would not progress to a lethal stage and are considered “indolent.”
  • Visceral pleural invasion (VPI) significantly increases the risk for recurrence and reduces overall survival (OS) in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), reported MSKCC’s Prasad Adusumilli and co-authors in a June 2013 article published in Chest.
  • The RBC Decathlon benefiting MSKCC, visited the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square.