Englander Institute for Precision Medicine
Personalized Care: Dr. Gail Roboz (above right), examines patient Cheryl Bonder this spring as part of her ongoing treatment.

Cheryl Bonder had been living with a vaguely defined blood malignancy for years when her prognosis rapidly took a turn for the worse: her condition was progressing toward acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), an aggressive cancer of the blood and bone marrow. “I was going south pretty quickly without another good plan in place,” recalls Bonder, a 61 year old health and wellness coach from New Jersey. Traditional chemotherapy might have offered her a few more months, but that was not how she...

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The enormous promise of precision medicine to advance science and speed new, highly targeted therapies to patients is exceeded only by its potential to achieve something even more important: To help bring equity to medicine.

Juneteenth is a critically important date in American history, it’s both a celebration of the end of slavery and the promise of a more equitable future. But the killing of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests last year showed how far we still must go to...

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Combining immunotherapy with targeted radiation resulted in a greater response rate than immunotherapy alone in a phase 2 clinical trial in patients with early-stage, non-small-cell lung cancer led by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. In view of the safety and efficacy of the treatment, a larger trial is warranted.

Immunotherapies, drugs that increase the immune system’s ability to detect and kill cancer cells, are becoming a mainstay of cancer treatments....