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| Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Buffalo, New York, United States |
| Coordinates | 42°53′50″N 78°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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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.
- ^ Rusch, Harold P (1985). "Beginnings of Cancer Research Centers in the United States". Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 74 (2): 391–403. doi:10.1093/jnci/74.2.391. PMID 3883036.
The first center in the United States devoted specifically for research on cancer was founded by Dr. Roswell Park in 1898. Dr. Park, a professor of surgery at the University of Buffalo (Buffalo, NY), with Mr. Edward Butler, publisher of the Buffalo Evening News, in 1897 persuaded the legislators of New York State to appropriate $7,500 for cancer research.
- ^ "Roswell Park celebrates 120 years with time capsule". WGRZ. April 25, 2018. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
- ^ "1898-1950". Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
- ^ "Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center". National Cancer Institute. 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2021.