- MSKCC researchers contributed to a study published in Pediatrics that found that the majority of pre-adolescents do not regularly use sunscreen despite the fact that many of them suffered sunburns at some point during their childhood, which increases the risk of developing melanoma later in life.
- Dr. Peter T. Scardino of MSKCC was quoted in a Huffington Post article about the implications of a recent study that found a new gene variant linked with a higher risk of developing hereditary prostate cancer.
- Researchers from MSKCC have shown in mouse models that a single dose of the commonly used antibiotic, clindamycin, wiped out nearly 90 percent of bacterial taxa, leaving the mice unusually susceptible to infection by Clostridium difficile.