Recent Posts in Cancer Care

Jun 27, 2019 - In Cancer Care New Cancer Treatment, New Hope

How CAR T-Cell Therapy Helped a Patient When Chemotherapy Could Not Dave Rodney, 62, didn’t have time to be sick. A professional concert and travel promoter, and an avid musician and cook, he had too much living to do. But in August 2017, while working ...

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Jun 24, 2019 - In Cancer Care FACING BREAST CANCER TOGETHER

A team of specialists surrounds and supports breast cancer patients. When someone gets a diagnosis of breast cancer, the future appears uncertain. Questions abound: What’s my first step? Who will provide my care? Will I be OK? Breast cancer specialists at ...

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Jun 24, 2019 - In Cancer Care CHOOSING THE RIGHT RADIATION THERAPY

With advanced technology, experts can customize treatment to a patient’s precise needs. More than half of people with cancer receive radiation therapy—the use of high-energy beams to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors—as all or part of their treatment, ...

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Jun 17, 2019 - In Cancer Care A Rare Skin Cancer is on the Rise

Merkel cell carcinoma is increasingly common and very aggressive, and requires a comprehensive treatment approach. SKIN CANCER, THE MOST COMMON type of cancer, has been covered extensively over the past few years, and everybody knows at least something ...

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May 10, 2019 - In Cancer Care Where to Get the Best Cancer Care

For Patients, What Does it Mean to Have Access to a Comprehensive Cancer Center That is Designated by the National Cancer Institute? Rutgers Cancer Institute of new Jersey, a partner of RWJBarnabas Health, is the state’s only National Cancer ...

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Apr 16, 2019 - In Cancer Care Should You Get a Colonoscopy? Answers to the Top Colorectal Cancer Prevention Questions

Monmouth Medical Center offers comprehensive screenings and advanced colorectal procedures to prevent, diagnose and treat a variety of colorectal conditions Michael Arvanitis M.D. , FACS, FASCRS, the section chief of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Monmouth ...

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Apr 14, 2019 - In Cancer Care Radiation Without Fear

A new technology makes cancer treatment faster, quieter and more comfortable. WHEN DENNIS CAREY HAD A ROUTINE COLONOSCOPY in the fall of 2018, the test came up negative—his digestive tract was normal. But his doctor did find something else. “He noticed ...

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Apr 8, 2019 - In Cancer Care Saint Barnabas Medical Center; First Site Worldwide to Enroll Patient in Single Phase III Breast Cancer Trial

The Cancer Center at Saint Barnabas Medical Center is pleased to announce that through its partnership with Translational Research In Oncology, United States (TRIO-US, Inc.), it has enrolled the very first patient in an international clinical trial ...

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Apr 7, 2019 - In Cancer Care Help for Hepatitis

If not diagnosed and treated, this often-overlooked disease can lead to liver cancer. “We’re in the era of viral hepatitis elimination,” says Su Wang, MD, MPH, an internal medicine specialist at Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC) and a member of Barnabas ...

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