NYU Langone Health launched its first Gastrointestinal Cancer Center earlier this month, naming Dr. Anirban Maitra and Dr. Manuel Hidalgo as its co-directors. Housed within NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, the GI center will facilitate opportunities for multidisciplinary research, clinical care and training of professionals using the medical center’s robust research infrastructure. Hidalgo, a medical oncologist and Grossman professor, told WSN that most GI cancer treatment requires a combination of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Some researchers are also seeing “dramatically” higher rates of GI cancers in adults under 50. “The end goal is to figure out this mystery of why early-onset GI cancers are increasing in numbers,” Maitra said.