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Roswell Park Releases Super Bowl Ad Early

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…”
Drs. Erik Knudsen and Agnieszka Witkiewicz
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Roswell Park Researchers Propose Two New Strategies for Treating Pancreatic 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.
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Roswell Park Becomes Region’s Only NPF Center for Pancreatic Cancer

The National Pancreas Foundation (NPF) has designated Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center as an NPF Center for pancreatic cancer. The Buffalo-based cancer center is one of only 42 centers nationwide — and the only one in Western New York — to be named to this network of premier healthcare facilities recognized for their focus on multidisciplinary treatment of pancreas disease and for their commitment to treating “the whole patient,” with a focus on the best possible outcomes and an improved quality of life.

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Roswell Park’s Dr. Candace Johnson Named to Inaugural ‘Health Care Power 50’ List

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.
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Patient Terrace at Roswell Park Wins Regional and National Design Awards

A rooftop terrace and garden at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has won two prestigious architectural awards. The MMMB Patient Terrace, a year-round outdoor space accessible from Roswell Park’s Scott Bieler Clinical Sciences Center, received a regional Design Award from the Buffalo/WNY chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and also took home a Gold Award for best remodel/renovation in Healthcare Design Magazine’s national Healthcare Design awards.

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Roswell Park Physicians Named to Buffalo Spree’s Top Doctors 2019

As the year winds to a close, the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center medical team celebrates another honor with the publication of Buffalo Spree magazine’s Top Doctors list for 2019. Eighty different Roswell Park physicians across 30 different specialties were elected to this list, which is compiled through a peer survey of Western New York physicians.