Back at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Saltz believes it is premature to start giving Erbitux instead of Avastin to patients.
The logic, points out Memorial Sloan Kettering melanoma expert Paul Chapman, is compelling.
Wolchok, an oncologist at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, thinks there is a connection.
At Memorial Sloan-Kettering, errors are being prevented by forcing doctors to prescribe drugs via computer.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering says that Scher had nothing to do with making the letter public.
Viehbacher argues that the Memorial Sloan-Kettering doctors are wrong, and that Zaltrap is worth the money.
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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.
"I'm very pleased, " says Leonard Saltz , an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City.
Already, big hospitals like Memorial Sloan-Kettering are gearing up to do kras testing on all their colon patients.
Wang, director of dermatological surgery and dermatology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center site in Basking Ridge, N.
But Hussain, of the University of Michigan, and Howard Scher, of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, both were among the naysayers.
Other researchers, including those at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and, separately, Dr. Bonomi at Rush Presbyterian, are performing their own studies.
At Memorial Sloan-Kettering, stem-cell biologist Lorenz Studer has received money from Project A.L.S. and the Starr and Michael J.
"People think it is a highly refined procedure, " says Peter Scardino, chairman of urology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Larry Norton sees some of the toughest cases as deputy physician-in-chief for breast cancer 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.
Studies using tissue samples are difficult in lung cancer patients, but some will begin soon with Tarceva at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
Harold Varmus, the director of the National Cancer Institute, knows David Koch from Memorial Sloan-Kettering, which he used to run.
"There are a lot of treatment options for patients now, " says Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's Robert Motzer, who led the study.
So she jumped at the chance to join a clinical trial at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering six weeks after her operation.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering, which serves about 900 meals a day, revamped its kitchen to offer more personalized patient service about two years ago.
Sarofim currently sits on the board of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and is also a director at the Texas Heart Institute.
"I think it's a promising therapy and an important study, " says David Pfister , who directs head and neck oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Studer spent years trying to transform adult stem cells into neurons to study why they die off prematurely in Parkinson's disease.
"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.
In an interview last week, Mark Kris, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City, said Iressa would be a useful drug.
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.
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