Among other projects, she and her colleagues are looking for ways to harness the power of stress to make allogeneic bone marrow transplants safer, improve outcomes for radiation and immunotherapies, and provide a new treatment strategy for patients with advanced melanoma.
Throughout the chaos of 2020, Roswell Park's Cancer Talk blog brought you advice for dealing with the pandemic, tips for living a healthy lifestyle, essential information for cancer patients and survivors, and stories of hope and inspiration. Here we highlight some of our most popular articles from the past year.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the first COVID-19 vaccine marks a hopeful turning point in the fight against a virus that has taken so much from so many.
Every year more than 13,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer, which used to be one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths for women in the United States.
They hope that harnessing the power of stress in patients who undergo allogeneic transplant will lower their risk of developing a harmful condition called graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) while preserving the beneficial graft-versus-tumor effect (GVT). If all goes well, they could launch a clinical trial within a year to pave the way for doing just that.
The ban on elective surgeries in Erie County that goes into effect this Friday, Dec. 4, as announced by New York State, does not apply to most of the surgeries at Roswell Park. Here are the details.
Once you’re infected, it usually takes between five days and two weeks before symptoms appear. This stage is called "pre-symptomatic." When people are pre-symptomatic, the amount of virus they shed from the nose and mouth is extremely high, putting others around them in danger.
