Partners in Practice Articles

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center joined with hospitals, health systems, physicians and supportive care teams from across the state, all committed to reducing the burden of cancer, to launch the Roswell Park Care Network.

There are 128,000 cancer survivors in Western New York and many of these individuals must continue their surveillance after they have received a clean bill of health.

The past 10 years have led to significant improvements in assessing hereditary cancer risk, due largely to advancements in genetic testing technology, knowledge of hereditary cancer risks and the identification of new cancer-associated genes.

by Smit Singla, MD, MRCSEd, MSc, and Boris Kuvshinoff, MD, MBA

Neuroendocrine tumors (NET) are a group of relatively slow-growing tumors that arise mostly in the pulmonary and gastrointestinal system. Considered rare, their incidence has increased 6.3% in the last 25 years, with a prevalence of 35 per 100,000 patients. Because patients with these tumors generally present with vague symptoms, the diagnosis is often delayed by five to seven years.