The Gastrointestinal Program
Roswell Park Cancer Institute provides comprehensive, individualized gastrointestinal and colorectal cancer care for about 700 inpatient admissions and over 15,000 outpatient visits annually, including an influx of almost 1,000 new patients. There are about 5,100 cases of colon cancer diagnosed annually in New York State, with about 770 cases from the Western New York region, and there are about 1,900 cases of rectum or rectosigmoid cancer diagnosed annually in New York State, with about 300 cases from the Western New York Region.