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E-Cigarette Research: Flavorings and Higher Voltage Increase Toxicity of E-Cigs

Roswell Park Cancer Institute scientists report that several flavorings added to electronic cigarettes impact the toxicity of the devices and that, among the tested flavors, strawberry was the most toxic. The researchers also confirmed an earlier finding that increasing the battery output voltage of these devices significantly increases toxicity.
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Fear of missing out

FOMO, the abbreviated slang meaning “fear of missing out,” is a huge mental and emotional side effect of being a young adult cancer survivor and represents just a sliver of the unique challenges we have to face during and well after the fight of our lives.
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Celebrating Dr. Donald Pinkel's remarkable career

When Dr. Donald Pinkel graduated from medical school at the University of Buffalo in 1951, the world was a pretty dark place for kids with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). They didn’t live long after diagnosis, and experts in the field of blood cancer were convinced the disease was incurable.
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One Single Biopsy Not Sufficient to Guide Treatment Decisions in Prostate Cancer

While the majority of prostate cancers are slow growing and not fatal, some are aggressive and lethal. That fact underscores both the importance of new evidence that prostate tumors can be genetically different in individual patients and the implications of these research findings for patients and oncologists.

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Roswell Park Designated a ‘Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery’ (FLS) Test Center

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has been designated an official Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) Test Center after successfully meeting all required standards and criteria. The Institute is one of 21 approved FLS Test Centers in the Eastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S., and one of only three in New York state.
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Roswell Park Named to 'Great Oncology Programs' List

Roswell Park Cancer Institute has once again been named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s 100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs, an annual list of centers that are national leaders in patient care, cancer outcomes and research.