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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center | |
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National Comprehensive Cancer Network | |
Geography | |
Location | Buffalo, New York, United States |
Coordinates | 42°53′50″N78°52′01″W / 42.897185°N 78.866852°W |
Organization | |
Care system | Medicare |
Type | Specialist |
Affiliated university | University at Buffalo, the State University of New York |
Services | |
Standards | NCI-designated Cancer Center |
Beds | 133 (licensed) |
Speciality | Oncology, Teaching hospital |
History | |
Former name(s) | The Pathological Laboratory of the University of Buffalo (1898 - 1899) The Gratwick Research Laboratory (1900 - 1911) The State Institute for the Study of Malignant Disease (1912-1945) Roswell Park Memorial Institute (1946 - 1991) Roswell Park Cancer Institute (1992 - 2017) |
Opened | 1898 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in New York State |
Other links | List of NYS Public Benefit Corporations |
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is a cancer research and treatment center located in Buffalo, New York. Founded by surgeon Roswell Park in 1898, the center was the first in the United States to specifically focus on cancer research. [1] [2] [3] The center is usually called Roswell Park in short. The center, which conducts clinical research on cancer as well as the development new drugs, provides advanced treatment for all forms of adult and pediatric cancer, and serves as a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center is as of 2019 [update] , the only upstate New York facility to hold the National Cancer Institute designation of "comprehensive cancer center". [4]
The Roswell Park campus, spread out in 15 separate buildings of approximately two million square feet, occupies 28 acres (11 ha) on the 100-acre (40 ha) Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) in downtown Buffalo, and includes 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m2) of space equally distributed between clinical programs and research/education functions. A separate hospital building, completed in 1998, houses a diagnostic and treatment center. The campus also includes a medical research complex as well as research and education focused spaces.
In 1898, the program that would later become the cancer center was established by Roswell Park, who was a professor of surgery at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine. [5] Park said that "Only through a deliberate well-planned, combined attack from various directions by means fitted for such work could real advances be made and further the relationship of laboratory work, clinical study and education must be closely associated." [5]
Research started in three rooms in the University of Buffalo School of Medicine but not long thereafter, it outgrew the rooms. Seeing the importance of dedicated cancer research, select Buffalo citizens donated funds to purchase land and construct a new building. The largest contributor was Mrs. William Gratwick (wife of William H. Gratwick, the founder of Gratwick, Smith & Fryer Lumber Co.), who donated $25,000. The Gratwick Research Laboratory of the University of Buffalo was constructed in 1901 and was located at High and Elm streets. [6]
Park wrote books, gave lectures, and was the administrator at the cancer research center. In 1904, Park stepped down and Harvey R. Gaylord took over as the center's second director. Park remained as the chairman of the board of trustees. [7]
In coming decades the center was renamed the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, a name it retained for decades until 2018, when its current name was implemented. The Roswell Park Cancer Institute was usually called Roswell Park or RPCI for short.
Drs. Gerty and Carl Cori jointly won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, "for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen." [13] Their research leading to the discovery began during their tenure at Roswell Park (then called the New York State Institute for the Study of Malignant Diseases), from 1922 to 1931. [14]
Thomas Dao (1921–2009), served as director of the breast surgery department from 1957 to 1988, where he developed breast cancer treatment alternatives. [15]
In 1975, Thomas Dougherty successfully treated preclinical models of cancer using photodynamic therapy (PDT) techniques for the first time. [16] [17] In 1978, he conducted the first PDT clinical trial. [18] [19] Today, PDT is an FDA-approved method for treating specific kinds of cancer, and is used around the world.
Research resulting in the discovery of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) was led by T. Ming Chu in the 1970s. [20] His team subsequently developed a way to detect the PSA protein in blood as a simple diagnostic test. [21] Since its FDA approvals in 1986 and 1994, an estimated one billion PSA tests have been given.
Biochemist Marie Hakala, PhD [22] [23] first observed that 5-fluorouracil becomes more effective in treating cancer cells when calcium leucovorin is added. [24] [25] This discovery paved the way for the development of 5-FU + leucovorin therapy, which was for many years the gold standard of chemotherapy for colorectal cancer.
SurVaxM, a cancer immunotherapy vaccine, was awarded orphan drug status by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 2017. A phase II clinical trial of SurVaxM has shown that the vaccine, when combined with standard therapy, is more effective than standard therapies alone. [26]
Roswell Park offers both Master's and PhD programs in Cancer Sciences. [27] These programs are offered in collaboration with the University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine. [28]
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has received numerous accolades for the quality of healthcare provided.
Roswell Park provides comprehensive care for a wide range of cancers. [46]
Roswell Park offers specialized treatments, services and therapies to treat cancer, as well as services to support patients undergoing cancer treatment. [47] [48]
Roswell Park was the first American institution to receive FDA permission to conduct clinical trials of CIMAvax, a Cuban medical therapy developed by Centro de Immunologica Molecular, La Habana, Cuba. [49] [50]
The Ovarian Cancer SPORE is a collaboration between Roswell Park and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI). The SPORE project includes multiple research projects, core supportive structures, and career development programs. [51]
Together with the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Roswell Park manages the Stacey Scott Lung Cancer Registry. [52]
Founded in 1990 by Steven Piver, the Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry houses information relating to family history and lifestyle of patients and families with histories of ovarian cancer. [53] [54]
Roswell Park collaborates with institutions around the world to strengthen cancer training and research programs. [55]
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