Press Releases

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center invites all interested community members to be a part of “A Community Conversation About Cancer” on Tuesday, July 31, beginning at 6 p.m. The free event will be held at the Delavan-Grider Community Center, 877 E. Delavan Avenue in Buffalo.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and Oneida Healthcare have marked two milestones: the full implementation of a new medical oncology facility and ground-breaking at the site of a state-of-the-art radiation oncology center on the same campus. Both developments are part of a collaborative initiative to provide increased local access to the services of a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center to residents of Central New York.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has been recognized for the superior care it offers cancer patients, having been named one of the first Blue Distinction® Centers for Cancer Care. The center is one of four hospitals in New York State, and 42 nationwide that received this designation.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Roswell Park’s Marketing/Creative Services team received two international and six national awards for excellence in video production and storytelling. They were honored for two videos that were conceptualized, written and created in-house.

In a new study published today in PLOS Genetics, Christine Ambrosone, PhD, of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and colleagues identified a genetic difference between people with African and European ancestry that affects how the immune system triggers inflammation. They suspect these differences are rooted in how the immune system evolved and the evolutionary pressure exerted by malaria on ancestors who lived in Africa.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified significant differences in the immune microenvironment of breast cancer tumors between African-American and white women, shedding light on the ways in which race can influence cancer development and outcomes.