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National Cancer Institute Renews Roswell Park’s Prestigious ‘Comprehensive’ Designation

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has affirmed its support for Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, renewing its status as one of 50 elite Comprehensive Cancer Centers and awarding a $22.5 million Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) to fund core research and education programs — the largest such award and highest application score in Roswell Park’s history. Roswell Park has held this prestigious NCI designation continuously since it became one of the nation’s very first Comprehensive Cancer Centers more than 45 years ago.
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Tumor Expression Pattern May Predict Recurrence in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center physicians Grace Dy, MD, Chief of Thoracic Oncology, and Maya Khalil, MD, Chief Hematology-Oncology Fellow​, led an effort to identify whether the tumor microenvironment can predict risk of disease recurrence in patients with non-metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. Dr. Khalil will present the team’s findings this week at the 55th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago.
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Roswell Park Teams Bring Research on New Cancer Therapies and Prognostic Tools to ASCO 2019

Several Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center teams have been invited to present their own latest research or to share their expertise as discussion leaders at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), to be held May 31 to June 4 in Chicago, Illinois. The theme of this year’s gathering — the world’s largest clinical cancer research meeting — is “Caring for Every Patient, Learning from Every Patient.”