BUFFALO, NY — African-American men are one-and-a-half times as likely as Caucasian men to be diagnosed with prostate cancer and, when diagnosed with prostate cancer, are more than twice as likely to die from it.

BUFFALO, NY —World Blood Donor Day, a day set aside to generate awareness and encourage blood donations, will be marked this year on June 14. This month, as you reflect upon your own good health, won’t you consider giving the gift of life to someone less fortunate?

BUFFALO, NY — In collaboration with the 2010 Susan G. Komen Western New York Race for the Cure, Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) will collect saliva specimens for its Data Bank and BioRepository (DBBR) at the June 12 race.

Researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center are hoping to determine whether genetic profiling may effectively identify which breast cancer patients are most likely to respond to the drug trastuzumab. Preliminary research findings will be summarized by lead investigator Thaer Khoury, MD, FACP, in a presentation on Saturday, June 5, 2010 at the 46th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, IL.

The CEOs of the region’s leading hospital systems and health plans who also represent the founding organizations of HEALTHeLINK, the Western New York Clinical Information Exchange, today launched a month-long drive to increase the number of completed patient consent/election forms.