Cancer center recognized for its multidisciplinary breast cancer care

  • Accredited since 2017; Re-accredited for three more years
  • Earned through a rigorous independent evaluation
  • One of five ACS designations cancer center holds

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has once again received accreditation under the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC). Roswell Park has held this prestigious standing since 2017, following a rigorous independent evaluation. It is the only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Upstate New York to hold this designation. The reaccreditation will last for the next three years.

Programs accredited by the NAPBC follow a model for organizing and managing a breast center to facilitate multidisciplinary, integrated, and comprehensive breast cancer services. The NAPBC focuses on the spectrum of the patient’s journey with breast cancer or breast disease, including prevention, screening, treatment, and survivorship. By setting high standards, NAPBC accreditation guides breast centers in providing comprehensive breast care based on scientific evidence.

Roswell Park has been recognized for its multidisciplinary breast cancer care

Roswell Park provides multidisciplinary cancer care that integrates expertise from several specialists, including surgical, medical and radiation oncologists, plastic surgeons, pathologists and others who focus exclusively on patients with breast cancer.

“Being continually accredited by the NAPBC since 2017 underscores Roswell Park’s leadership in breast cancer care,” says Kazuaki Takabe, MD, PhD, FACS, FSSO, Clinical Chief of the Department of Breast Surgery at Roswell Park. “Our patients deserve access to nationally recognized care close to home, and this reaccreditation affirms that commitment.”

“ACS Quality programs are grounded in more than a century of experience and participation is an important measure of a hospital’s surgical quality,” says ACS Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Patricia L. Turner, MD, MBA, FACS. “As an ACS Surgical Quality Partner, Roswell Park has shown a commitment to the best possible patient care, evaluating that care in a rigorous fashion and dedicating themselves to continuous self-improvement.”

This is one of five quality designations that Roswell Park currently holds from the ACS, including Surgical Quality Partner, Surgical Quality Improvement Program, Commission on Cancer Accreditation and Rectal Cancer Accreditation.