Lung specialists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center now have a tool for visualizing and reaching lung nodules through a minimally invasive approach, enabling earlier diagnosis of cancer, smaller biopsies and broader treatment options for patients. The Buffalo-based cancer center has become the first facility in New York State to implement Auris Health Inc.’s Monarch™ platform for robotic navigational bronchoscopy into its interventional pulmonology program.

Patients who were unexpectedly hospitalized for dehydration, fever or other ailments while undergoing radiation treatment for head and neck cancers were at a higher risk for less favorable outcomes, a new study from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center reports.

A multidisciplinary team of experts from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has earned a prestigious $5.2 million “R01” grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for a groundbreaking investigation into clues that immune cells may hold about breast cancer disparities between Black women and white women.

In a talk to be presented online as part of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Virtual Annual Meeting II, Fumito Ito, MD, PhD, FACS, of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center will highlight new evidence that a biomarker for predicting response to checkpoint inhibitors in patients with lung cancer exists and can be detected through a blood test