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A drug that blocks a male hormone receptor prolonged life by nearly a year compared with the placebo in men with nonmetastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer, according to the final analysis of the results of an international, multi-center Phase 3 clinical trial led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian...

Weill Cornell Medicine, in collaboration with the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida and the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil, has been awarded a five-year, $8.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to investigate ways to prevent human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.

Together, investigators at these three institutions comprise the “Multinational Partnership...

There’s a rare hereditary disorder of the connective tissue that causes abnormal twists and turns in the blood vessels. This condition, known as arterial tortuosity syndrome (ATS), can lead to serious aortic complications—including narrowing (stenosis), bulging (aneurysms) and tearing (dissection) of the wall—and can be fatal in early childhood, although individuals with milder forms of the disease can live into adulthood. ATS is an autosomal recessive disease, meaning that those who suffer...

By Heather Salerno

In many ways, breast cancer doesn’t discriminate. It strikes young and old, rich and poor, women and men—people from all walks of life. Yet for Dr. Lisa Newman it’s long been clear that the disease isn’t an equal-opportunity illness. When Dr. Newman was starting out as a general surgeon in Brooklyn in the 90s, she started to notice something unusual among the African American women who were coming to her after...