Press Releases

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center today announced a collaborative effort to greatly improve the availability of cancer care in Niagara County. The first step of the new collaborative partnership is a comprehensive thoracic clinical program.

While research suggests that increasing dietary intake of lignans — nutrients found in whole grains, vegetables, fruits and seeds — may reduce risk of breast cancer, the findings from studies testing this hypothesis have been inconsistent. A new study from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), examines how women of different backgrounds metabolize lignans. What these scientists learned may help explain why associations between diet and breast cancer risk have been difficult to demonstrate consistently.

We just couldn’t wait any longer. For the fourth time, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has launched a 30-second regional television commercial, set to air in the Buffalo region during the Super Bowl on Sunday, February 3. The spot is called “Dear Cancer…”

In a pair of new studies, researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center outline strategies for overcoming pancreatic cancer’s resistance to treatment through approaches that exploit this cancer’s reliance on uncontrolled, or deregulated, cell proliferation. The companion articles in Oncogene, which is published by the Nature Publishing Group, and Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), report promising findings from preclinical studies employing existing treatments that have been effective against other solid-tumor cancers.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center President and CEO Candace S. Johnson, PhD, has been named to City & State’s inaugural Health Care Power 50 list. Dr. Johnson, who in 2015 became the first woman to lead the cancer center, is number 24. She is the only person from a Western New York institution to be included on the statewide list.

The Ride For Roswell presented by the West Herr Automotive Group launched registration for its 24th annual event, taking place on Saturday, June 22.

Five promising preliminary cancer research projects at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center received a total of $500,000 in grants made possible by donations from the community.

Participants have been growing their beards since November and raised a collective $60,000 for Roswell Park.