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A set of gene variants that originated in Sub-Saharan West African populations may help explain why black women, compared to white women, have worse breast cancer outcomes, according to a new study from a team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian.

The study, published April 3 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, found that higher amounts of the immune-related gene, DARC/ACKR1,...

Early in her career as a surgeon in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Lisa Newman became concerned about the patterns of breast cancer in her African-American patients.

“They were typically younger than my white American patients, and they also tended to have larger, bulkier tumors,” she says of the African-American women she treated in the 1990s. “Most tragic was that they were also more likely to have cancers that were resistant to the...

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar welcomed 34 new doctors, including 13 Qatari nationals—a landmark for the institution—into the medical profession during commencement on May 2.

The graduates in the Class of 2018 received their Cornell University medical degrees during a ceremony at the Sheraton Hotel in Doha, in front of family, friends and WCM-Q faculty and staff. WCM-Q, under the patronage of the Qatar Foundation, has now graduated 335 doctors since the first class of medical students...

Dr. Jean William “Bill” Pape, the Howard and Carol Holtzmann Professor in Clinical Medicine and the founder and director of GHESKIO in Haiti, has been awarded the inaugural Joan and Sanford I. Weill Exemplary Achievement Award from Weill Cornell...