Press Releases

While most patients treated with radiation therapy for cancers of the head and neck develop oral mucositis, there is no standard approach for monitoring those patients for this often-debilitating side effect of cancer treatment or for measuring its severity. In new work published today by JAMA Network Open, a research team at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center shows that more patients than previously thought experience mucositis and can benefit from earlier diagnosis and intervention to address its effects.

A program launched at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center three years ago to advance health equity and access by strengthening connections between cancer researchers and Indigenous communities has grown into a broad-based team of Indigenous experts with an expanded scope and purpose. The cancer center’s new Department of Indigenous Cancer Health reflects the significant growth of an initiative led since its inception by health disparities expert Rodney Haring, PhD, MSW, an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians, Beaver Clan.

Opening the doors to specialized cancer and dermatology services to patients in Niagara County and beyond, Roswell Park Care Network leaders announce their newest practice in Lockport.

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).