As a Look Good Feel Better Alliance partner, Windsong Breast Care is proud to offer Look Good Feel Better workshops free of charge for individuals with cancer. Windsong Breast Care is a leader in a multidisciplinary approach to breast cancer and the Look Good Feel Better program
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Cancer claims the lives of millions of people across the globe every year. According to the World Health Organization, cancer was responsible for 8.8 million deaths worldwide in 2015, making it the second leading cause of death across the globe. Though cancer is often fatal, it doesn’t
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Give Yourself and Your Health Peace of Mind Free cancer screenings offered in Erie County By Kimberly LaRussa While many people become acutely aware of the importance of getting screened for cancer during specific cancer awareness months, there is every reason why we should make getting proper
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By Abigail Unger Hospice Buffalo’s (Hospice) mission is to provide optimal care, support, advocacy, and education to anyone impacted by serious illness and loss by providing a continuum of care that spans the course of disease progression through bereavement. A significant component of this care is guiding
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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center immunology researchers have uncovered a biomarker that may help explain why some patients respond better than others to a common chemotherapy treatment for liver cancer. They hope that their analysis of immune responses among patients receiving sorafenib can lead to more individualized
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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have received more than a dozen recent grant awards totaling more than $15.4 million. These competitive awards from both government agencies and private funders will fuel research to overcome obstacles in treating diseases like prostate, breast, colon and lung cancer, as
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Data-driven assessment by U.S. News & World Report places Roswell Park in top 1.5% of cancer hospitals Annual ranking reviewed patient outcomes and other data for 885 cancer centers New methodology puts focus on patient-centered metrics Also rated high-performing in 2 subspecialties: colon and lung cancer surgery
Read more →While the new American Cancer Society (ACS) screening guidelines recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) states that transitioning to biennial screening is an option for older women, the report notes that either one or two year intervals would be appropriate as a woman ages.Windsong Radiology supports the
Read more →Phase II clinical trial will assess efficacy of Roswell Park-developed immunotherapy in newly diagnosed patients BUFFALO, N.Y. — An innovative vaccine therapy developed at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) is being tested in a multisite clinical trial involving 50 patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma brain tumors. The
Read more →Conclusions of new analysis may help investigators to reduce research bias, improve access to screening BUFFALO, N.Y. — It has long been known that rates of breast and cervical cancer screening among Latinas are low compared to rates for U.S. women overall. A study led by researchers at
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