Center provides comprehensive survivorship care and other quality of life services.
This month, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center reopened its location on College Parkway in Amherst with a new focus — providing essential survivorship and wellness care. This location — 100 College Parkway — was previously a treatment center, but those services are now offered in the new and larger Scott Bieler Amherst Center nearby on Park Club Lane.
The need for survivorship care has become obvious
“As more people survive their cancer than ever before, the need has become obvious,” says Tessa Flores, MD, Medical Director of Cancer Screening and Survivorship. “Patients often have many more years ahead of them and we want to help them make their life after cancer the best that it can be.”
Cancer treatments are harsh on the body, and cancer survivors face unique ongoing medical and other needs. Our Survivorship program provides focused medical care to detect and manage any complications or side effects from cancer or its treatment and restore body and soul with rehabilitation services, mental health support and wellness activities.
New location provides care closer to home
Establishing this location as a survivorship and wellness hub brings these important services closer to patients, helping to make this part of their healthcare more convenient and in a comfortable, community setting with free parking. Services provided at this location include:
- Survivorship care, including expert surveillance, cancer screenings, symptom management, mental health support and guidance and more based on your unique diagnosis, treatment history and wellness goals.
- Rehabilitation services, to rebuild strength and mobility, address side effects like pain and lymphedema, and improve breathing and stamina.
- Dermatology care for expert skin surveillance and general dermatologic needs.
- Wellness activities such as support groups, yoga, qi gong, meditation and more!
As you transition to survivorship care after completing active cancer treatment, your care team will ask whether you prefer to have your appointments at our downtown Buffalo campus or the reopened location on College Parkway. Cancer survivors do not need to have been treated at Roswell Park to seek survivorship care here.
Patients in active care may opt to receive rehabilitation and dermatology services, as well as participate in wellness activities, at this convenient location, too. New patients should call 1-800-ROSWELL (1-800-767-9355) for an appointment.
What makes this location special?
We're taking holistic cancer survivorship care to a new level in establishing an entire center to focus on achieving optimal wellness.
