“Roswell Park is at the forefront of research on gastroesophageal cancer, and these studies are aiming to improve the efficacy of chemotherapy, immunotherapy and radiation in patients.”
“I’ve always wanted to do something like this but I never had the right idea,” she says. “Getting back into art is amazing and helpful. I always wanted to help people.”
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has been instrumental in the modernization of PDT for treating other forms of cancer – most recently as a part of the therapy for pleural mesothelioma, a rare but aggressive form of lung cancer.
Nausea and vomiting may occur during or a few hours after your treatment (acute), or much later (delayed). Not everyone will experience this side effect, but it is most common in people who have had general anesthesia, or are receiving certain cancer therapies.