Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York is a treatment and research institution founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital.

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New York - 1884

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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) is actually composed of two intimately-related institutions. Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases provides patient care, while Sloan-Kettering Institute is MSKCC's basic-science research arm; the research institute was established in 1945 by Alfred Sloan and Charles Kettering.

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1945 - Alfred Sloan - Charles Kettering

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MSKCC has long been a leader in cancer surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. It was the first to develop services specifically dedicated to the psychiatric aspects of cancer, to the relief of cancer pain, and to genetic counseling. U.S. News and World Report ranks MSKCC as the best cancer hospital in the country. Since that particular rating service began, only M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston has rivaled MSKCC.

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U.S. News and World Report - M.D. Anderson Hospital

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MSKCC is affiliated with the Weill Cornell Medical College. Cornell's Tri-institutional MD/PhD program uses MSKCC as one of its three sites (along with Weill Cornell and Rockefeller University).

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Weill Cornell Medical College - Rockefeller University

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