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Seventh- and eighth-grade students from the Buffalo Public Schools marked Genome Day by taking part in several unusual hands-on activities today at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University at Buffalo (UB) New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (

Three Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center nurses have been honored for their compassionate care, service and academic contributions in oncology by national organizations.

Preliminary results are in from the first large U.S. study to survey users about a wide variety of tobacco products, and they show that significant numbers of adults and youths are using multiple forms of tobacco, such as cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, cigars and smokeless tobacco.

College students who use tobacco products, marijuana and/or binge drink also are more likely to use electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes, according to results of a survey conducted by researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University at Buffalo.