This summer, Dr. Ganesh stands up for her patients

Funding cancer research can lead to new treatments

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August 27, 2026 11:06am EDT

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Dr. Karuma Ganesh. I stand up to cancer because I want to make a difference.

Dear Friend,

The idea of a mini-tumor in a lab dish might sound frightening. But for Karuna Ganesh, M.D., Ph.D., a medical oncologist with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, these organoids, as they're known, are vital research tools.

With SU2C funding, Dr. Ganesh has used organoids to study cancer plasticity — cancer cells' uncanny ability to change and adapt to their environments. She has also led SU2C-funded research that may help explain the alarming increase in colorectal cancer among younger adults.

Dr. Ganesh's work is instrumental in helping understand the underlying mechanisms of cancer, and how cancer research can lead to new treatments and ways of preventing cancer in the first place.

"When I go to clinic every single week, I see the opportunity and the challenge to make better, more effective treatments to allow patients to live full, healthy lives."

– Dr. Karuna Ganesh, M.D., Ph.D.

When you stand up this summer, you'll be supporting cancer research like Dr. Ganesh's — focused on finding cures and allowing patients and survivors to live their fullest lives possible.

With gratitude,

Stand Up To Cancer