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  James Edstrom With Nurse Tracy I got my Covid 19 shot on Sunday at Mount Sinai hospital on 101st street in Manhattan. Tracy the nurse was wonderful as was the whole staff.  I urge anyone that can get the vaccine to do it now. The more people that are vaccinated the faster we will get back to normal life. So far no side effects, which is great. I get the second shot on March 15th which I am looking forward too. There is something about getting the vaccine that gives you a sense of power. You feel that maybe you are beating this horrible virus. We will all have to continue to wear masks for a while and practice social distancing, but this adds a extra layer of protection till we can beat this. Many people I speak too are very scared to get the shot. Many say they will not get the vaccine. I urge everyone to get the shot in the arm, it could save you and it could save someone in your family. This is the only way we will get to herd immunity if we can at least get close to 80% o...

Samuel Waxman, M.D. Ross L. Levin, M.D. The Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation (SWCRF) announced groundbreaking summaries of its research advances from the past year at the 2019 SWCRF Breakthroughs Scientific Symposium at the Leon and Norma Hess Center for Science and Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center. The event brought together more than 100 SWCRF grantees, scientific leaders and stakeholders to mark the conclusion of the annual two-day SWCRF Scientific Review, an evaluation of SWCRF funded research programs. Notable cancer investigators funded by the SWCRF along with members of the SWCRF Scientific Board spoke on the research discoveries that were reported on during the SWCRF Scientific review. These included advances developing novel therapeutics based on new understandings of epigenetic and genetic mechanisms associated with cancer development and progression, how cancer cells become dormant or reawaken to spread through metastasis, successes in treati...