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Currently, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates remain low across the U.S., with fewer than 40% of girls and just over 21% of boys receiving the recommended vaccine series. Research from Roswell Park Cancer Institute has identified barriers that need to be overcome to improve vaccination rates, as well as possible strategies for doing so.

Marc Ernstoff, MD, Chair of the Department of Medicine and Senior Vice President for Clinical Investigation at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, has co-authored the clinical practice guidelines for melanoma within a new edition of a global medical oncology training reference guide.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is a specialized and highly targeted method of delivering radiotherapy, or radiation therapy, to treat cancer.

BUFFALO, N.Y.

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center President and CEO Candace S. Johnson, PhD, has completed her core leadership team with the appointment of Shirley A. Johnson, RN, MS, MBA, as Senior Vice President of Nursing and Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer.

While the majority of prostate cancers are slow growing and not fatal, some are aggressive and lethal. That fact underscores both the importance of new evidence that prostate tumors can be genetically different in individual patients and the implications of these research findings for patients and oncologists.