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The Campaign for NewYork-Presbyterian

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A Revolution in Cancer Care Is Starting at NewYork-Presbyterian.

After decades of leading the way in innovation, research, and patient care, NYP’s visionaries are ready to move cancer care forward in a way no one else can.

We’re dreaming of a future where every cancer patient who comes through our doors receives care that is built from the ground up around their individual situation.

Care that meets the specific needs of their body and mind, their culture and community.

Care that brings together the kind of treatments we could only dream of 10 years ago with the kind of support and compassion we all need each day.

Care that could only take shape here.

It’s time to fundamentally remake the experience of cancer care—for patients in New York and for people across the world.

Together with donors like you, we can. And with your support, we will.

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World-Class Physicians and Scientists—Serving All

NYP is proud to offer two globally recognized and award-winning cancer centers: Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University/Columbia University Irving Cancer Center and the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at Weill Cornell Medicine. Our commitment to innovation and an integrated, patient-centered approach puts us at the forefront of cancer prediction, prevention, and treatment in collaboration with our Ivy League medical partners.

At the end of the day, this work is about our patients and what is best for them and their families in the context of their communities. There is not one panacea for cancer. What I find motivational and invigorating on a daily basis is to try to bridge discovery science into clinical care alongside my colleagues.”

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Anil K. Rustgi, MD

Herbert and Florence Irving Director, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center

This is what the field really needs: to embrace the concept of treating the patient and the cancer. Every day at NewYork-Presbyterian, we’re creating the next generation of cancer treatments and finding ways to bring them to all our patients, but we know that’s not enough. We take a holistic approach to treating the whole person—not just the cancer.”

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Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PHD 

Meyer Director of the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine

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A Global Leader in Cancer Care

Patients benefit from NYP’s breadth and depth of resources, offering them a higher chance of prevention and early detection than a stand-alone cancer center. At every stage of care and for any stage of cancer, our vast network of experts and healthcare professionals strive to give patients every possible advantage.

  • Top 10 percent of cancer care hospitals nationwide, with excellent rankings in patient recovery, patient experience, patient services, and use of the latest technology.

  • An internationally renowned destination for care with recent experience treating patients with cancer from 30 U.S. states and 25 countries.

  • NYP is the only hospital in the nation affiliated with two Ivy League medical partners: Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

  • Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center of New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center has been a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center—the gold standard for cancer programs, achieved by less than 5 percent of cancer centers nationwide—for more than 50 years.

  • Team-based care with many of the world’s leading specialists working in partnership with each patient’s care team, with 360-plus faculty members and 750 trainees at NYP’s affiliated cancer centers working across 50-plus departments and eight locations.

  • A commitment to serving all that has led us to extend care to patients across all five boroughs of New York City and host 500-plus educational events and cancer screenings that have reached more than 12,000 people over the past five years.

  • Resolute efforts to discover the latest life-saving therapeutics, with experience since 2019 leading 7,900-plus clinical trials with over 9,300 accruals, including 660-plus Phase I and Phase II clinical trials, to find new ways to detect, diagnose, and treat cancer.

The Field of Cancer Care Is Transforming Dramatically, and NYP Is Leading the Change.

Here, where world-altering breakthroughs in cancer detection and treatment began—like Dr. Georgios Papanikolaou’s 1941 development of the “Pap smear” test—we stand at the forefront of cancer care and research. Today and every day, our physician-scientists are collaborating on experiments that will define the next horizon of possibility using AI and data science, incredible new techniques and treatments like precision medicine and immunotherapies, and more.

Yet we also know that recovery and healing goes well beyond the site of the tumor. That's why our model centers on the patient rather than the cancer as we address the full impact of cancer on a person's physical and mental health.

And we know that we can't give each person the care they deserve unless we fully account for the social determinants of health and health inequities they face. We're in a league of our own when it comes to reimagining cancer care with access and equity at the heart.
All of this adds up to nothing less than a revolution in cancer care: a whole new way to understand cancer and to care for those afflicted with it.
Together, we can fundamentally change how patients around the world receive and experience leading-edge care.
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A Global Leader In
Cancer Care

Patient Spotlight

From Left: Catherine Shu, MD, Robert Pepkin, and Joshua R. Sonett, MD, gather in front of the painting Robert donated to NYP.

Robert

As COVID-19 began to invade New York City, Robert Pepkin’s life was turning upside down.

A CT scan revealed a spot on his lung. His doctor referred him to Joshua R. Sonett, MD, the Chief of General Thoracic Surgery and Director of the Price Family Center for Comprehensive Chest Care.

It’s true multidisciplinary care that’s transformed outcomes of lung cancer treatment just in the past five years. We led that change because of philanthropy.”

Cheryl

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.

It’s an absolute miracle...I don’t know how else to describe it.”

Cheryl Bonder (right) cooking at home with daughter Kyle. Credit: Xanthos Liddy

With This Campaign, We Will Bring Our Vision Soaring to Life—and Bring the Revolutionary Possibilities of Cancer Care’s Future to All.

Investment Priorities

Bringing the Most Advanced, Compassionate Care Close to Home.

  • Giving every NYP cancer care patient access to beautiful, calming spaces grounded in the local community, where leading-edge technology supports the latest treatments, research, and clinical trials and the full range of services and specialties are available to them.

  • Providing exceptional, accessible cancer care across our integrated health system with investments in facilities that bring world-class care to all, including the David H. Koch Center in Manhattan, NYP Queens and NYP Brooklyn Methodist (both affiliated with Meyer Cancer Center), NYP Westchester, and NYP Hudson Valley

  • Expanding the horizons of cancer care with our cancer and advanced ambulatory center in Washington Heights.

Breaking Down Barriers Between Patients and Research.

  • Expanding physician-led clinical trials to broaden the leading edge of cancer care.

  • Making our Ivy League partners’ wide-ranging, innovative trials available to all patients throughout the NYP system.

  • Ensuring that every person of every background can benefit from our partners' latest research and breakthroughs and that the latest research includes all, generating a large, diverse set of data that can benefit the people around the world.

Leading Cancer Research and Innovation.

  • Investing in the groundbreaking research of our physician-scientists.

  • Reshaping how we understand tumor behavior and target radiation therapy.

  • Pioneering innovative immunotherapies and cell therapies that stimulate the body’s immune system to fight the cancer and regenerate diseased tissue.

  • Honing our understanding of individual cancer behavior using the power of AI and the uniquely large, diverse patient data of NYP.

Bringing Together Everything Patients Need—for Cancer and Beyond.

  • Integrating leading-edge systems from imaging, infusion therapy, and cutting-edge cell therapy to heart, lung, and skin care to nutrition, social work, and mental health support for each patient.

  • Setting a new global standard for comprehensive care that treats not only the cancer but also its many other effects in patients’ lives.

  • Bringing the most advanced and integrated cancer care possible to every patient across NYP, no matter their means.

No Facility on Earth Could Meet the Audaciously High Standard of Cancer Care That We’ve Set for Ourselves. So We’re Going to Build One.

The first healthcare facility designed by legendary architect Jeanne Gang, our planned 475,000-square-foot cancer care and advanced ambulatory center will define the future of cancer care at NewYork-Presbyterian and shape the future landscape of global health.

Groundbreaking on NYP’s new cancer and advanced ambulatory center, rendered here, is scheduled for 2025.

A Beacon for the Future of Cancer Care

Our cancer care and advanced ambulatory center will bring together the fullest range of cancer care and other critical ambulatory services, including:

  • A comprehensive array of leading-edge treatments—imaging, infusion therapy, radiology, cell therapy, and more.

  • On-site clinical trials that reach even more patients and allow doctors to incorporate research in real time.

  • Supportive services for the whole body and the whole person: cardiology, pulmonology, dermatology, nutrition, mental health, social work, and more.

A Beacon of Hope for Patients

In a place we hope people never have to go, we will do all we can to put them at ease and care for every one of their needs by providing:

  • A serene and peaceful place for patients and their families, with plenty of greenery, water, and spaces for rest and reflection.

  • A design that reflects and respects the social, cultural, and linguistic differences of our patients and neighborhood.

  • Seamlessly integrated care that eliminates the need to travel from facility to facility during a tiring journey.

A Beacon of Care for All

Located in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in America, the cancer care and advanced ambulatory center will stand as a symbol of equitable and compassionate care and feature:

  • Telehealth technology that expands access and supports decentralized clinical trials.

  • Increased access to free cancer screening, genetic testing, and educational resources to improve prevention.

  • Expanded financial reimbursement plans for clinical trials to help every patient get the leading-edge care they deserve.

Today, We Stand on the Brink of a New Era in Healthcare and in Cancer Care.

Join us in revolutionizing the way we treat cancer and changing what’s possible—in New York and beyond.

For every patient facing the fight of their life.

For every doctor who believes their patients deserve the best.

For every visionary researcher working toward a cancer-free world.

For every Dream.

For every Hope.

For every future

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