It’s a time most young people dream about: Being in your 20s, finally an adult, out in the world and working your first job, maybe living in your first apartment alone or with a roommate. It’s an exciting time full of change and new adventures — something that can feel upended and derailed with a cancer diagnosis.

There is no screening test for gallbladder cancer like there are for some other cancers, which makes it harder to find the disease at an early stage.

The Anal Cancer Prevention Program works to ensure those with risk factors won’t delay their screenings. “If it’s caught early, it can really prevent the cancer from spreading and make treatment much easier.”

Colorectal cancer is curable if caught early, and the way to catch it early is through a colonoscopy.

While the majority of patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis will not develop colorectal cancer, their risk for colorectal cancer increases the longer they have IBD.

"The mission of the COE is to assure that all cancer patients and communities in Western New York can benefit from, and have access to, all the clinical and scientific advances accomplished at Roswell Park.” 

“Out of any cancer in which we observe disparities, prostate cancer is the one where it’s so clear-cut and prevalent."

If someone feels a lump in their throat or neck, it’s worth going to a primary care physician to have them take a look and possibly schedule a sonogram to look for nodules in the throat.