Since 1999, annual hospital admissions at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) are up over 1,000—now totaling over 4,900 individuals per year who are in need of inpatient care. Our outpatient visits now total over 196,000 annually. This growth has resulted in over 30,000 total patients under active treatment.

	Admissions	Outpatient Visits	Active Patients
2004	4,250	134,122	21,242
2005	4,320	143,981	22,181
2006	4,401	156,208	22,390
2007	4,214	167,409	22,916
2008	4,538	175,312	24,533
2009	4,589	183,411	26,058
2010	4,932	196,694	30,758

Over the next 10 years, we expect an increase of 32% in the number of  patients needing our help annually, with annual ambulatory (outpatient) visits expected to increase by 29%.