- MSK’s Outpatient Art Program (established in 2013) which includes both temporary and permanent installations coordinated by Outpatient Curator Sarah Campbell, was highlighted in a March 25 Hyperallergic article. How art is being integrated into MSK’s mission and the role it serves in the healing process of patients was explained.
- MSK’s Visible Ink writing program was described in a March 30 News 1 segment that reported on how learning to write down their personal stories has helped many cancer patients of all ages. The program produces annual anthologies of the written works and also organizes a yearly performance where the best pieces are read by actors.
- On NPR’s March 26 Morning Edition, jazz singer and MSK patient MaryAnn Anselmo was featured in a story about how genetic testing of her tumor — which showed it to have a mutation usually found in skin cancer — lead to her brain cancer being treated with a skin cancer drug therapy.
- A March 24 Reuters Health piece described a recent study by MSK’s Dr. Raymond Thornton and his group which showed that patients may not currently be getting as much information about the risks of radiologic testing as they might wish to receive from their doctors.
Read and Watch #CancerFilm: The Emperor of All Maladies!
On March 30, PBS will begin airing the long-awaited Ken Burns film Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (#CancerFilm), which features several MSK clinical leaders and staff.
READ Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Emperor of All Maladies: Biography of Cancer available now at the MSK Library. You’ll find this title in TriCat, our library catalog.
WATCH MSK’s Dr. Clifford A. Hudis, MD, chief of the Breast Cancer Medicine Service, speak with Dr. Mukherjee about his work and the upcoming documentary:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/841334
TUNE IN on Monday, March 30 to your local PBS station to see Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies. Learn more at www.cancerfilms.org
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