Recent Posts in Cancer Care

May 25, 2023 - In Cancer Care Skin Cancer Myth vs Fact

New Jersey’s leading resource for the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer and melanoma Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States with more people diagnosed than all other cancers combined. However, it is also one of the most ...

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May 4, 2023 - In Cancer Care Blue Light Cystoscopy Enhances Detection of Cancer in the Bladder

When symptoms and blood tests suggest bladder cancer, the fourth most common cancer in men according to the American Cancer Society, experts will inspect the inside of the bladder using a long, thin tube with a video camera on the end called a cystoscope. ...

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May 4, 2023 - In Cancer Care Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer have Unique Mental Health Needs

Adolescents and young adults, known as AYA’s are defined by the National Cancer Institute as those diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 15 to 39 years old. This population is at a unique stage in their emotional, cognitive, and social development, ...

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May 4, 2023 - In Cancer Care The Impact of Skin Cancer on the Hispanic Community

The rate of melanoma—the most dangerous form of skin cancer—has risen 20 percent among Hispanics in the past 20 years, and Hispanics who get skin cancer are more likely to be diagnosed at later stages when it is harder to treat. There are significant ...

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Apr 20, 2023 - In Cancer Care Five Life Lessons I’ve Learned from Working with Robots

Joanna Sesti, MD I was born in Cuba and my family immigrated to New Jersey in 1989. We lived in a predominantly Hispanic, low-income neighborhood in Hudson County. Thanks to a passionate biology teacher in high school who shared a similar experience, I ...

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Apr 11, 2023 - In Cancer Care Addressing the Challenge: Connecting Black Women with Clinical Trials

Jersey City, N.J. – Clinical trials are an important step in bringing forth new treatments for many diseases. Unfortunately, many clinical trials have strikingly low rates of Black participants including those that disproportionately affect Blacks such as ...

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Apr 7, 2023 - In Cancer Care The Surgical Review Corporation (SRC) Accredits Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital as a Center of Excellence in Adult Robotic Surgery

Several RWJUH, Rutgers RWJMS and Rutgers CINJ Affiliated Surgeons Recognized as Surgeons of Excellence in Robotic Surgery by the SRC (New Brunswick, NJ) – Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital’s (RWJUH) Adult Robotic Surgery Program has been accredited ...

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Apr 4, 2023 - In Cancer Care J. Phillip Citta Regional Cancer Center at Community Medical Center Earns Accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer of the American College of Surgeons

Community Medical Center is One of Only Three Hospitals in NJ to Earn this Accreditation TOMS RIVER, NJ - March 21, 2023: The J. Phillip Citta Regional Cancer Center at Community Medical Center (CMC), an RWJBarnabas Health facility, has earned a three-year ...

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Mar 30, 2023 - In Cancer Care $3.2 Million Grant Supports Study of New Genetic Testing Approach to Reduce Racial Health Disparities

With the aid of a near $3.2 million National Cancer Institute grant (R01CA277599) recently awarded, investigators from the state’s leading cancer program, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer ...

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