Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Imaging Mass Cytometry shows the immune-inflamed subtype of upper tract urothelial carcinoma at single-cell resolution. Red: tumor-expressed E-cadherin; Green: T-cell-expressed CD3; Blue: DNA. Credit: Hiranmayi Ravichandran, André Figueiredo Rendeiro and Kentaro Ohara.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have performed the most comprehensive analysis to date of cancer of the ureters or the urine-collection cavities in the kidney, known as upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC).  The study, which compared the characteristics of primary and metastatic tumors, provides new insights into the biology of these aggressive cancers...

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Weill Cornell Medicine is part of an international team that has been awarded funding of up to $25 million over five years by Cancer Grand Challenges to study the causes of cancer inequities.

Cancer Grand Challenges is a global funding initiative co-founded by the...

Male breast cancer represents less than 1 percent of all breast cancer cases each year. Unlike breast cancer in women, survival rates for men haven't significantly improved in the last 30 years, according to the National Cancer Institute. Credit: iStock

Male breast cancer has distinct alterations in the tumor genome that may suggest potential treatment targets, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. They have conducted the first whole genome sequencing analysis of male breast cancer, which looked at the complete DNA landscape of tumor samples from 10 patients.

This is an important...