But William Tew, the Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York who conducted the VEGF-Trap study, cautions that the Avastin study looked at less-sick cancer patients, who had failed fewer drugs.
Larry Norton sees some of the toughest cases as deputy physician-in-chief for breast cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
There are only 700 new cases a year in the US, according to Dr. Nai-Kong Cheung, a pediatric oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
That might have killed the effort in the past, but thanks to the pilot plant, City of Hope is gearing up to conduct its own 60-person trial in collaboration with UCLA and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
"When you can tell me which cancers need to be treated and which don't, then I will consider this argument" about overdiagnosis, says Clifford Hudis, chief of the Breast Cancer Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Afinitor delayed disease progression in patients with kidney cancer by a modest three months in a 416-patient trial led by Robert Motzer, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Wolchok, an oncologist at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, thinks there is a connection.
Antigenics started the next round of clinical trials in June at New Yorks Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Brentjens, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and lead author of the study.
Wang, director of dermatological surgery and dermatology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center site in Basking Ridge, N.
"People think it is a highly refined procedure, " says Peter Scardino, chairman of urology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
It has been created by researchers from New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Ada Louise Huxtable, the dean of American architecture critics, died Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
"He's brilliant, " says Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center chemist Samuel Danishefsky , who is collaborating with Khosla on a cancer drug.
"There are a lot of treatment options for patients now, " says Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Robert Motzer, who led the study.
Sarofim currently sits on the board of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and is also a director at the Texas Heart Institute.
"That is never ever going to happen, " says Raymond Muller, associate director of the pharmacy at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Too often, "the abnormality on the screening test has become the disease, " says Peter Bach, a pulmonologist and epidemiologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
It "tends to spread to many, many parts of the body at an alarming rate, " says Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center melanoma expert Jedd D.
Nicole Kucine is a pediatric hematologist and oncologist who's getting more training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and has volunteered at the camp for four years.
The combination was more effective than each drug given alone, said Jedd Wolchok, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who led that study.
"We are in the beginning of what will be a huge new field of tumor ablation, " says interventional radiologist Stephen Solomon at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
One of the "no" votes was Howard Scher, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who has made a career of designing trials to test prostate cancer drugs.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center oncologist Leonard Saltz has tested some of the most expensive cancer drugs on the planet, including Erbitux from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Eli Lilly.
The majority of patients who want to proceed with reconstruction have options available, says Dr. Colleen McCarthy, a surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
Warrell, who was a top oncologist at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center before taking the helm at Genta, a biotech firm based in Berkeley Heights, N.
Dr. Varmus, the Nobel laureate and president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, was daunted by the first of his two turndowns by Harvard's med school.
He is on the Board of Overseers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and on the Board of Visitors for the School of Public Policy of Pepperdine University.
"Totaling up how many dollars are involved here is quite staggering, " says Leonard Saltz , an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who conducted trials on many big-name cancer drugs.
"We are not talking about something that is going to suddenly pop up and kill someone in six months or a year, " explained panel member Michael Tuttle of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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