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Memorial Sloan-Kettering-53rd Street
160 East 53th Street (at Third Avenue)

The Rockefeller Outpatient Pavilion offers outpatient radiology and chemotherapy services as well as public information and prevention, screening, and wellness programs for people at risk of developing cancer.

This facility includes a 190,000-square-foot ambulatory-care center, with 95 percent of the facility dedicated to direct patient care, including multidisciplinary physician practice suites and treatment spaces, organized by disease teams.

Outpatient clinics include dermatology, gastrointestinal oncology, genitourinary oncology, gynecology, plastic and reconstructive surgery, thoracic oncology, and cardiology and pulmonary services. Programs in patient education, women's health, cancer prevention and wellness (including early detection services), and integrative medicine are also available. Radiological services include MRI, ultrasound, CT scans, mammography, bone densitometry, and general radiology. Also housed here are the Barbara White Fishman Women's Outpatient Center, offering a range of health services for women, and The John and Maxine Bendheim and Robert Bendheim Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Center, where men with an increased risk of prostate cancer can receive diagnostic testing, genetic and nutritional counseling, and treatment planning.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering-64th Street
205 East 64th Street (Between Second and Third Avenues)

The Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center meets medical and non-medical needs of breast cancer patients as well as those who may be at higher-than-average risk for the disease. At this one location, which centralizes the services of many healthcare professionals, patients may draw on services ranging from mammography to genetic counseling. Additional services offered include art therapy, social work, psychiatry services, nutrition services, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Special Surveillance Breast Program.

The Iris Cantor Diagnostic Center offers the most up-to-date imaging techniques available, including mammography, ultrasound, stereotactic/ultrasound-guided aspiration or biopsy, computed tomography (CT), and radiography.

641 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor

Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Counseling Center is available to help manage distress that cancer patients and family members may experience.

The Counseling Center offers individual, family, and group counseling; alleviation of stress and other symptoms; mindfulness-based stress reduction; smoking cessation and help with improving health habits; neuropsychological testing; art therapy; an AIDS supportive care program; bereavement groups; and research studies.

1429 First Avenue (at 74th Street)

Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Integrative Medicine Service complements mainstream medical care and addresses the emotional, social, and spiritual needs of patients and families. The Service provides inpatient and outpatient clinical care and undertakes research, and education, and training.

The Integrative Medicine Service has become an internationally known model program, with over 1,000 patient visits each month and a roster of funded laboratory research and clinical trials.

In treating disease, complementary therapies are not substitutes for mainstream medical care; they are used in concert with medical treatment to help alleviate stress, reduce pain and anxiety, manage symptoms, and promote a feeling of well-being.

The guiding principle at Memorial Sloan-Kettering is to offer the most effective treatment and the highest quality of care for people with cancer. Therapists are appropriately trained and certified, and are selected for their skill and sensitivity to provide the most satisfying healing experiences available.

353 E. 68th Street (Between First and Second Avenues)

The Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Cancers offers under one roof comprehensive, multidisciplinary care of genitourinary cancers.

This approach, convenient to patients seeking diagnosis and treatment for cancers of the prostate, testes, kidney, and bladder, also fosters valuable research collaborations to advance the standard of care for these cancers.

160 East 53rd Street, 11th Floor

A world leader in cancer care and research, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center has always welcomed international patients. People seek out Memorial Sloan-Kettering from all over the world for the highest-quality cancer care.

Staff at the International Center coordinate the clinical and personal needs of Memorial Sloan-Kettering's international patient population with skill, warmth, and concern.

55 Fifth Avenue (at 14th Street)

In 1996, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center acquired the Stella and Charles Guttman Breast Diagnostic Institute, a provider of breast cancer screening in Greenwich Village for more than 30 years. Now known as Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Guttmann Diagnostic Center, a variety of prevention and early detection services to men and women for gynecologic, prostate, and skin cancers are offered.

The Guttman Diagnostic Center provides mammography to some 35,000 women a year as well as physical examinations and breast self-examination instruction. Fine-needle ultrasound-guided biopsy and cervical-cancer screening (pelvic exams and Pap smears) are also conducted. For men, the Guttman Diagnostic Center provides screening for prostate cancer.

163 West 125th Street

Since its founding in 1979, the Breast Examination Center of Harlem (BECH) -- an outreach program of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center -- has screened more than 118,000 women for breast cancer. BECH has an established reputation in the Harlem community for free, high-quality care offered by its professional staff.

The Breast Examination Center of Harlem (BECH) offers the Harlem community breast cancer screening, mammograms, pelvic examinations, and Pap smears, counseling, patient follow up, and patient education. The center houses 15 full-time staff, including the Program Director, a health educator, mammography technicians, patient navigators, session assistants, plus other administrative support staff.

The professional staff is under the leadership of Dr. Harold P. Freeman, Medical Director of BECH, and includes breast surgeons and nurse practitioners. Members of Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Department of Radiology interpret the mammography studies; Memorial Sloan-Kettering pathologists interpret the Pap studies.

1114 First Avenue (at 61st Street)

The Cancer Information Service (CIS) of New York is a program of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). It is one of 14 regional CIS offices serving the nation. The CIS is a national information and education network and is a free public service of the National Cancer Institute, the federal government's primary agency for cancer research.

This award-winning program is the source of the latest, most accurate cancer information for patients, their families, the general public, and health professionals. The CIS also works in partnership with organizations that reach people in particular need of cancer information and services.

Efforts are focused on reaching minorities, including African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Alaskan Natives, and people who are medically underserved (including older Americans, and individuals living in communities lacking adequate health services or experiencing language, educational, financial, or transportation barriers).

Through the CIS Research Initiative, the Cancer Information Service studies the most effective ways to communicate health information in order to help people adopt healthier behaviors.

The CIS operates a toll-free telephone service where specially trained staff explain scientific information in understandable terms and answer calls in English, Spanish, and from the hearing impaired. Information specialists provide thorough, personalized attention to each caller and answer questions about cancer prevention, screening, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, and research. The CIS also provides live, online assistance to users of NCI websites through LiveHelp, an instant messaging service.

633 Third Avenue (at 41st Street)

Memorial Sloan-Kettering's administrative departments -- which include Finance, Information Systems, Marketing, Public Affairs, Patient Accounts, Human Resources, and Development -- are located in Midtown Manhattan.