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Magnet Recognition Program® Site Visit
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
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Different Colors, Same Old Lies: NYS Smokers’ Quitline Takes On Deceptive Tobacco Marketing
Monday, June 21, 2010
BUFFALO, NY — The New York State Smokers’ Quitline and Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) are launching an educational campaign to alert consumers in Western New York to the deceptive marketing tactics of the tobacco industry by substituting pack colors to replace banned misleading... Read more
Advocates Unite in Fight Against Prostate Cancer, "Man Up" Organization Formally Launched to Spread Awareness
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
BUFFALO, NY — African-American men are one-and-a-half times as likely as Caucasian men to be diagnosed with prostate cancer and, when diagnosed with prostate cancer, are more than twice as likely to die from it. Latinos, too, have considerably higher incidence and mortality rates for... Read more
Platelet Donation: To One Person at RPCI, You May Be the World
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
BUFFALO, NY —World Blood Donor Day, a day set aside to generate awareness and encourage blood donations, will be marked this year on June 14. This month, as you reflect upon your own good health, won’t you consider giving the gift of life to someone less fortunate? Because cancer... Read more
Maintenance Treatment with Oral Lenalidomide after Stem Cell Transplant Reduces Risk of Disease Progression for Multiple Myeloma Patients
Sunday, June 6, 2010
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Roswell Park Cancer Institute Weighs in on Obesity Debate; Finds No Connection Between BMI, Leukemia Outcomes in Adults
Friday, June 4, 2010
BUFFALO, NY — Researchers from Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) have found no significant connection between body mass index (BMI) and clinical outcome in adult patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Results of this study will be presented Saturday, June 5, 2010 at the 46th annual meeting... Read more
RPCI Researchers Seeing Links Between Genetic Profile, Trastuzumab Resistance
Friday, June 4, 2010
BUFFALO, NY — Researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) are hoping to determine whether genetic profiling may effectively identify which breast cancer patients are most likely to respond to the drug trastuzumab. Preliminary research findings will be summarized by lead investigator Thaer... Read more
Gene Profile Study May Predict Esophageal Cancer Patient Response to Novel Chemotherapy Regimen
Friday, June 4, 2010
BUFFALO, NY — Gene expression profiling, combined with a novel chemoradiation regimen, may predict pathologic complete response in patients with esophageal cancer, according to research conducted at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Nikhil Khushalani, MD, an... Read more
Researchers Find Link Between Body Mass Index, Outcomes for Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patients
Friday, June 4, 2010
BUFFALO, NY — Overweight or obese Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients who receive standard chemotherapy may experience poorer outcomes than those patients with body mass indices of less than 25, according to a retrospective analysis conducted by researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI). First... Read more
"Spit for the Cure" at the "Race for the Cure"
Friday, June 4, 2010
RPCI, Komen WNY Race for the Cure encourage donations to specimen databank. BUFFALO, NY — In collaboration with the 2010 Susan G. Komen Western New York Race for the Cure, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) will collect saliva specimens for its Data Bank and BioRepository (DBBR) at the June 12... Read more