- Obesity may soon replace tobacco use as the leading preventable cause of cancer. MSK’s Dr. Clifford Hudis, chief of breast cancer medicine, predicts that this will happen in a couple of years. Obesity appears to be related to more aggressive breast cancer in postmenopausal women and prostate cancer in men.
- MSK opened a new 114,000 square foot, $143 million outpatient facility in West Harrison, NY on Oct 6th. The new campus will benefit MSK patients who live in Westchester County, the lower Hudson valley and western Connecticut. They will be able to get the same care that is offered at MSK’s Manhattan location.
- An MSK study showed that patients under 40 years old may benefit from PET/CT breast imaging. Up until now, this technique has been used only for patients with stage III disease. The study focused on young women with initial diagnoses of stage I to IIIc. The findings indicated that some patients needed to be upstaged to stage III or IV due to unsuspected spread of disease which led to more appropriate treatment. The results need to be confirmed in a clinical trial.