Your gift will provide analysis of DNA gel samples. Agarose gel electrophoresis is the easiest and commonest way of separating and analyzing DNA. The purpose of the gel might be to look at the DNA, to quantify it or to isolate a particular band. The DNA is visualised in the gel by addition of ethidium bromide. This binds strongly to DNA by intercalating between the...

This gift will provide one Tea Tree Therapy Mouthwash for inclusion in our Chemo Comfort kits. This is often one of the favorite items in our kit. Chemo Comfort kits help cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy by providing them with kits of products to manage the side effects of treatment. Over 70% of our kits were donated in 2008.

Our CancerCare Connect® seminars, led by oncology social workers, give people the chance to ask questions directly to medical experts. Being connected with others facing the same crisis reminds them they’re not alone. Your gift will help a lung cancer patient participate in an hour-long Telephone Education Workshop.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is one of only a few centers that offer computer-assisted family history analysis. Men with a family history of prostate cancer that suggests they may be at increased genetic risk for developing the disease can be referred to our genetic counselors who will help further evaluate their risks. Your gift will ensure that our researchers and physicians continue to make new...

Your gift will support the research of our physicians and scientists who continue to pioneer new medical treatments in breast cancer research such as immunotherapy, including vaccines and antibodies. Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s vaccine studies are designed to identify the best way to harness the body’s immune system to ward off recurrences. Our doctors have tested several monoclonal antibodies. They have so far demonstrated that this approach...

Today 10 million people in the U.S. are cancer survivors. In response to the increasing number of patients who are living beyond cancer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has established the Cancer Survivorship Initiative to institute a comprehensive program of services for cancer survivors and their families and to develop a survivorship research effort that will address issues vital to survivors nationwide.

Your gift will provide one Healthy Children Healthy Futures Tool Kit to teach children in one classroom to become advocates through their schools, families and communities for healthy eating and increased physical activity. The tool kit contains materials necessary for the implementation of the program at a school or community site, including a Facilitator Guide. Facilitators learn how to teach children to produce posters, radio...

This gift will provide 1 box each of peppermint and ginger tea to a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy. These teas will help with chemo induced nausea.

CancerCare Assist® is one of the longest running and best regarded financial assistance programs in the country. Your contribution will help a man with cancer pay for the gas that gets him to and from essential medical treatment.

Your gift will support current research into new agents to treat lung cancer and prevent its recurrence. Memorial Sloan-Kettering researchers are evaluating new drugs for lung cancer, including getifinib (Iressa). First tested at MSKCC, getitinib is one of a new class of drugs known as signal transduction inhibitors, which work by blocking the signal that make cancer cells grow and spread.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center offers care that is unequaled in depth of experience and expertise in the treatment of cancer affecting children, teenagers, and young adults. The multidisciplinary approach at Memorial Sloan-Kettering offers children and young adults with cancer the best opportunity for accurate diagnosis and the most effective treatment available, emphasizing treatments that target and cure cancer and return children to a normal life....

This gift will provide one sleep cap for use in a Chemo Comfort kit. These kits go to cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. Actual sleep caps are white cotton with lace around the edges for women and plain cotton caps for men.

Your gift will provide one pair of wonderfully warm and cuddly socks to a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy. The socks are included in our Chemo Comfort kits which are distributed to cancer patients. Over 70% of our kits are donated through partner organizations.