Experiences with multiphasic screening for cancer.

This study reports on our experiences with a multiphasic cancer screening clinic for the detection of early-stage cancers. The clinic under review is the Prevention-Detection Clinic (PDC) housed at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo. The PDC offers both free cancer screening examinations and risk-reduction education and counseling.

Comparison of patient profiles from a comprehensive cancer center and the general population.

Differences in cancer patient profiles between cases seen at comprehensive cancer centers and those seen in the general population are seldom assessed by means of reliable and systematically collected data. This report compares the characteristics of patients treated at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo with all reported patients diagnosed in the Western New York population. Data for this study were generated from the Roswell Park Tumor Registry and the Western New York Tumor Registry.