James Ewing Hospital was a 300-bed

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hospital notable for helping cancer patients.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, founded in 1884 as the New York Cancer Hospital. MSKCC is one of 52 National Cancer Institute– ...

took over running ''James Ewing Hospital'' in 1968.

History

''Ewings predecessor was "''City Cancer Hospital on

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'';" the ''First Avenue'' location opened in 1950. The ''Ewing'' building was a "ten-story structure on First Avenue, between Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Streets" and ''James Ewing Hospital'' was "an affiliate of ''Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases''." an earlier name of ''Memorial Sloan Kettering''. The opening of the hospital happened on August 22, 1950 with 300 beds. In 1950, this was a "modern" hospital and named after James Ewing in honor of his cancer research.

Founder

In 1899 Ewing was appointed as the first professor of

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at the Medical College of Cornell University. There, Ewing had access to the research laboratories at the New York Memorial Hospital, now known as the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. From there, Ewings research and findings lead him his experimental findings on cancers. The hospital was named after Dr. James Ewing (1866-1943), who had pioneered in cancer research and was featured on the cover of a 1931 Time Magazine issue as "''Cancer Man Ewing''." The hospital building, ''1250 First Avenue'' in

, today is ''Memorial Sloan Ketterings'''s ''Arnold and Marie Schwartz Cancer Research Building.''

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