Press Releases

September 28 was the occasion for two special honors for Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Philip McCarthy, MD, who was applauded for his achievements by the City of Buffalo and at the inaugural Fire Ball Sickle Cell Awareness Dinner & Award Ceremony.

Roswell Park Care Network held a grand opening today for its newest and largest location: the 15,000-square-foot offices of Roswell Park Hematology Oncology Southtowns. The expanded and relocated practice brings specialty cancer care and supportive services to the community in and around Southern Erie county, provided by the region’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.

A recent Children’s Oncology Group study identified a treatment algorithm that can help reduce therapy for some neuroblastoma patients with intermediate-risk disease, while maintaining good clinical outcomes. The study’s findings are particularly significant because they suggest that many infants and young children with this disease may be spared unpleasant or lingering side effects of prolonged therapy, says lead researcher Clare Twist, MD, of Roswell Park.

The Girl Scouts of Western New York are hosting their annual Women of Distinction event on September 26, 2019, honoring nine Western New York women for their strength, dedication and service to the community — with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s top official, Candace S. Johnson, PhD, among them.

Alan Hutson, PhD, MA, Chair and Professor of Oncology within the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, was named to a four-year term as Chair of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Data Sharing and Big Data Task Force.

A team from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is moving a new three-part strategy for treating advanced cancers forward with support from a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) grant to Pawel Kalinski, MD, PhD, Vice Chair for Translational Research and Rustum Family Professor for Molecular Therapeutics and Translational Research at the Buffalo, N.Y.-based cancer center. The four-year, $6.42 million Breakthrough Award through the DoD’s Breast Cancer Research Program will fund a clinical trial in patients with brain-metastatic breast cancer, to be led by Shipra Gandhi, MD, Assistant Professor of Oncology in the Department of Medicine at Roswell Park.

What if a drug that sits in nearly everyone’s medicine cabinet could help extend the lives of some cancer patients? In companion presentations at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting in Chicago, doctors from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center report new evidence that low-dose aspirin and other anti-inflammatories may improve survival in patients undergoing treatment for some head/neck and lung cancers.