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Memorial Hospital, on the current MSKCC campus, 1275 York Ave.

The original New York Cancer Hospital^[1], first built between 1884 and 1886, now converted to luxury condominiums, at 455 Central Park West and 106th St.

The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital. The main campus is located at 1275 York Avenue, between 67th and 68th Streets, with other locations in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Long Island and Westchester County, New York. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Central Park West is an avenue in New York City. ... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ... Year 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... York Avenue is a short north-south thoroughfare on the East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... Map of Basking Ridge ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) Basking Ridge is an unincorporated area located in Central Northern New Jersey within Bernards Township in the Somerset Hills region of Somerset County, New Jersey. ... This article is about the island in New York State. ... Westchester County is a primarily suburban county located in the U.S. state of New York with about 950,000 residents. ...

History

MSKCC is actually composed of two intimately-related institutions. Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, currently led by Physician-In-Chief, Dr. Robert Wittes, provides patient care, whose origins stemmed from a medical laboratory established on the campus of Cornell Medical Center and funded by John D. Rockefeller, in 1900. The original Memorial Hospital building was constructed in 1939 by a group that included John J. Astor and his wife, Charlotte. Between 1970 and 1973 a new memorial hospital was built on the same site - originally donated by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. The Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, formerly named the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University and abbreviated to Weill Cornell, is the medical school and biomedical research unit of Cornell University. ... John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. ... John Jacob Astor, detail of an oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, 1794 John Jacob (originally either Johann Jakob or Johann Jacob) Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) was the first of the Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, the creator of the first Trust... John D. Rockefeller Jr. ...

Sloan-Kettering Institute, currently led by Dr. Thomas Kelly, is MSKCC's basic-science research arm. The research institute was established in 1945 with a $4 million gift from the foundation of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Half the gift was to fund construction of a 13-story research facility and the other half to provide annual operating expenses. Charles F. Kettering, vice president and director of research for General Motors Corporation, was to organize and apply modern American industrial research techniques to cancer research. Cover of Time Magazine (December 27, 1926) Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. ... Charles Kettering, on a Time cover, 1933 Model of Kettering aerial torpedo on display at National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 24 or November 25, 1958) was born in Loudonville, Ohio, USA the fourth of five children of... General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, is a multinational corporation founded in 1908, and is headquartered in the United States. ...

In addition to the Sloan grant, a public campaign to raise an additional $3 million to $4 million was undertaken and an important financier who stepped in at a critical juncture was the ongoing supporter Laurance Rockefeller, of the philanthropic Rockefeller family. Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (May 26, 1910 - July 11, 2004) was a financier, philanthropist, and conservationist. ... The Rockefeller family, the renowned Cleveland family of John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) (Senior) and his brother William Rockefeller (1841-1922), is an American industrial, banking, and political family of German American origin that made the worlds largest private fortune in the oil business during the late 19th and...

At the August 8, 1945 announcement, Sloan and Kettering emphasized that the dramatic news of the atomic bomb, developed with a $2 billion research program, was a graphic illustration of what can be accomplished by scientifically-organized research as practiced by American industry. If as much money and talented personnel were available as the government had for the atomic bomb, they said, very rapid progress could be made in cancer research. is the 220th day of the year (221st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ...

The current president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering is Nobel Prize winner Harold E. Varmus. The Nobel Prize (Swedish: ) was established in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, and it was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901. ... Harold Elliot Varmus (b. ...

Reputation

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. “Surgeon” redirects here. ... Chemotherapy, in its most general sense, refers to treatment of disease by chemicals that kill cells, specifically those of micro-organisms or cancer. ... Varian Clinac 2100C Linear Accelerator Radiation therapy (or radiotherapy) is the medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells (not to be confused with radiology, the use of radiation in medical imaging and diagnosis). ...

As of 2007, U.S. News & World Report ranks MSKCC as the #2 cancer hospital in the country^[2]. The #1 position is hotly contested with the rival M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and both hospitals frequently swap places as the top cancer hospital. U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ... M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is a cancer research facility in the United States. ...

Research

MSKCC is affiliated with the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the Tri-Institutional MD/PhD program, which includes MSKCC as one of its three sites (along with Weill-Cornell and Rockefeller University). MSKCC and Weill-Cornell operate a joint graduate program in biomedical sciences, the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences. In 2004, MSKCC also established an independent graduate school, with a Ph.D. program in cancer biology: the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. The inaugural class was admitted in July 2006. The Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University (abbreviated to Weill Cornell) is the medical school and biomedical research unit of Cornell University. ... Founders Hall Rockefeller University is a private university focusing primarily on graduate and postgraduate education research in the biomedical fields, located between 63rd and 68th Streets along York Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan island in New York City, New York. ... Weill Medical Center The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences (WGSMS) is a graduate college of Cornell University that was founded in 1952 as an academic partnership between two major medical institutions in New York City: the Weill Cornell Medical College and the Sloan-Kettering Institute. ... Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. ...

MSKCC's new Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, based at Memorial Hospital, focuses on translational research, with the goal of bringing discoveries made in the lab to the patient at the bedside. Pathogenesis is the mechanism by which a certain etiological factor causes disease (pathos = disease, genesis = development). ...

Another focus of research at MSKCC is immunotherapy, or using the body's own immune system to fight cancer cells. In 2006 the center was one of six institutes (along with research centers at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University) selected to receive a $20 million grant for cancer research from the Ludwig Fund, created by the American billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig. The grant, one of the largest earmarked for cancer research the hospital has ever received, will be used for immunology research. The term immunotherapy incorporates an array of strategies of treatment based upon the concept of modulating the immune system to achieve a prophylactic and/or therapeutic goal. ... Harvard redirects here. ... “MIT” redirects here. ... The Johns Hopkins University, founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ... For other uses, see University of Chicago (disambiguation). ... Stanford redirects here. ... Daniel K. Ludwig (1897-1992) was a US shipping magnate and Billionaire. ...

Patient Care

There are 437 beds at Memorial Hospital and there were 21,179 patient admissions in 2006. MSKCC opened a new surgical center in the summer of 2006 with 21 operating rooms. Legendary New York pianist George Feyer gave his time regularly for decades to entertain the patients and play at the Center, until just before his death in 2001. // George Feyer [b. ...

In Music

Vampire Weekend's song A-Punk made a reference to Sloan-Kettering in one verse, saying, "A thousand years in one piece of silver, she took it from his lily-white hand, showed no fear- she'd seen the thing, in the young men's wing at Sloan-Kettering." Vampire Weekend is an indie rock band from New York City signed to XL Recordings. ...

External links

• Official website
• Cancer-help.org - Recent mentions in the online press
• Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
• Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
• Weill Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
• MSKCC Marathon Program

Coordinates: 40°45′51″N 73°57′25″W / 40.764096, -73.956842 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...

Sources

• "Sloan, Kettering to Combat Cancer", New York Times, August 8, 1945, p. 1 (cont'd pg 40).