With 2021 coming to a close, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is proud to celebrate the 128 physicians across 33 specialties named to Buffalo Spree magazine’s Top Doctor’s list for 2022. Each year, the list is compiled through surveys submitted by Western New York physicians.

Since the introduction of electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, to the United States in 2006, intense debate has surrounded the marketing, regulation and use of these nicotine-delivery products. Surprising new research led by Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that adult smokers with no plans to quit are more likely to quit smoking traditional combustible cigarettes if they switch to daily vaping.

Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-26) and Roswell Park CEO Dr. Candace Johnson recently joined a Congressional Cancer Caucus briefing with National Cancer Institute director Dr. Ned Sharpless and other national leaders discussing the National Cancer Act, which was signed into law on December 23, 1971, and efforts to continue making strides in cancer research and treatment.

An international research team co-led by scientists at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute has identified an important accelerator of treatment-resistant prostate cancer. The study, published Tuesday in Cell Reports, provides insight into how loss or mutation of the NCOR2 gene accelerates the progression of prostate cancer to a more lethal form of the disease.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center held a ceremonial groundbreaking Monday for the Roswell Park Scott Bieler Amherst Center, an expanded Amherst location on Park Club Lane. The new center will be Roswell Park’s first new-build outside of its downtown Buffalo campus. Announced in August 2021, the new center will be named for longtime supporter Scott Bieler in recognition of a significant gift made to the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation.