Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s fifth annual IceCycle fundraising event, presented by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and the West Herr Automotive Group, has come to a close. The event, which took place at Buffalo RiverWorks, raised $735,000 for cancer research and patient-care programs.

Roswell Park’s Community Alliance to Reach, Empower, and Sustain (CARES) program has awarded $50,000 in grants to five local organizations for innovative, community-driven projects aimed at reducing cancer risk and enhancing the quality of life for patients, survivors and caregivers.

Today, on a call with officials from the American Nurses Credentialing Center, nurses from teams across Roswell Park learned that they earned Magnet® Recognition for nursing excellence. The designation follows an in-depth review, and signifies that Roswell Park nurses have met stringent standards for nursing excellence in patient care delivery.

Led by a faculty leader at Roswell Park, an international team of experts has identified a genetic condition that raises the risk of developing two rare pediatric cancers — Wilms tumor and pineoblastoma. Their findings appear today in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.