Press Releases

A shining beacon of care, warmth and hope to the patients and families who encounter her, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Kimberly Sweeney, MBA, RN, has been appointed Vice President of Patient Care Experience.

Initial results from an in-progress Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center clinical trial offer important insights into hormone receptor-positive and HER2-negative (HR+/HER2−) metastatic breast cancer and patient response to CDK4/6 inhibitors. This study, newly published in NPJ Precision Oncology, identifies pathological and biological features associated with therapeutic response in these patients — suggesting possible treatment strategies for this common breast cancer subtype.

Eighteen months ago, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center announced a plan to build a new freestanding location in Amherst, N.Y., that would extend convenient access to outstanding cancer care and services for patients in Buffalo’s northern suburbs. Today, the cancer center welcomed patients, cancer survivors and community members into that center — Roswell Park Scott Bieler Amherst Center — for the first time at a grand-opening event.

Some communities suffer disproportionately from the health effects of tobacco use, which causes 30% of all cancer deaths. But while most people who use tobacco want to quit — including growing numbers who want to quit vaping — many do not have access to effective treatment programs for tobacco and nicotine addiction in their communities.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has once again been named to Forbes’ list of America’s Best Employers by State, based on an anonymous worker survey about workplace culture, benefits and inclusion.

Patients with pancreatic cancer who took the benzodiazepine lorazepam (Ativan), commonly prescribed to treat anxiety during cancer treatment, had a shorter progression-free survival than patients who did not, according to results published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

As work advances on a significant expansion of its cellular therapy production and research facilities, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has named Yeong “Christopher” Choi, PhD, MBA, as Senior Vice President of Industry Partnerships and Technical Director of the center’s current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) Facility.

The Roswell Park Care Network, a dynamic alliance of medical providers committed to delivering exceptional care to patients across Western New York and beyond, is pleased to announce new locations, care providers and services as part of ongoing growth and expansion. The Care Network was established in 2019 to expand convenient access to cancer treatment and services guided by experts at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.

As bans on menthol tobacco spread across the country and a potential ban looms at the federal level, researchers at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and their colleagues at the University of Southern California (USC) are investigating the tobacco industry’s efforts to circumvent a menthol ban enacted in California in December 2022. Those efforts could signal how they will respond to a nationwide ban on menthol tobacco proposed by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), expected this fall.