Press Releases

Forty-one physicians from Roswell Park Cancer Institute are included in the Castle Connolly Medical, Ltd. prestigious America’s Top Doctors® list in 2017. The annual directory offered by the healthcare research and information company is designed to help guide consumers to America’s top doctors.

One of the main reasons cancer remains difficult to treat is that cancer cells have developed a multitude of mechanisms that allow them to evade destruction by the immune system. One of these escape mechanisms involves a type of immune cell called myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs). A recent study led by Sharon Evans, PhD, Professor of Oncology and Immunology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, provides new insight into how MDSCs circumvent immune attack and offer the potential for improving cancer immunotherapy. The research has been published today in the journal eLife.

Hookah tobacco labeling is misleading for consumers, according to new research that analyzed nicotine and pH levels of the tobacco. The study, led by Roswell Park Cancer Institute scientists, is published online ahead of print by the journal Tobacco Regulatory Science.

The Erie County Sheriff’s Office and Buffalo Police Department (BPD) snipped, clipped and shaved their way to cancer cures today, raising a collective $39,400 to support cancer research and patient-care programs at Roswell Park Cancer Institute through the Goin’ Bald for Bucks program.

Dean Tang, PhD, Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.

For the second consecutive year, Roswell Park Cancer Institute has been named a Guardian of Excellence Award winner by Press Ganey, a prestigious designation that recognizes sustained high performance in patient experience.

NHL.com released a story yesterday highlighting a mannequin challenge video taken while the Buffalo Sabres team was visiting with patients at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. The Sabres team split into groups to take two separate videos which were shared on Roswell Park’s Facebook page, asking followers “who did it better?”

Just in time for the holiday season, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, in collaboration with Tony Walker & Co, has released a limited-edition necklace that carries powerful affirmations close to the heart of those facing, or who have faced, a cancer diagnosis. The “Roswell Strong” necklace features a four-sided bar pendant inscribed with meaningful messages to inspire and empower: Cancer Warrior, Determined, Brave and Blessed.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (Dec. 8, 2016) – Roswell Park Cancer Institute has again been recognized as an Optum® Center of Excellence (COE) in the areas of adult and pediatric blood and marrow transplantation (BMT).