Recent Posts in Cancer Care

Oct 11, 2019 - In Cancer Care Comfort Project 360 Announces 6th Annual Reason to Rock Honorees

Established in 2014, Comfort Project 360 (CP360) complements the outstanding care provided at The Cancer Center at Saint Barnabas Medical Center by creating supportive and healing environments in which patients and their loved ones are treated. “Community ...

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Oct 10, 2019 - In Cancer Care A Full Life After Liver Cancer

A powerful partnership helped a Short Hills man survive – and thrive – after his diagnosis. You might call Kelly Marx an ironman. At the age of 85, he has stared down cancer, and won. He credits his recovery to his own medical “dream team,” highly skilled ...

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Oct 8, 2019 - In Cancer Care Only the Best for Breasts

New screening tools and technologies spare patients from more invasive procedures. “One size does not fit all when it comes to breast screening,” says Linda Sanders, MD, Medical Director of The Breast Center at the Barnabas Health Ambulatory Care Center. ...

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Oct 8, 2019 - In Cancer Care Lung Cancer: New Reason for Hope

Earlier detection and newer treatments are giving lung cancer patients better odds. Lung cancer wasn’t on the agenda when a West Orange woman accompanied her husband to his routine annual checkup at Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC) in the fall of 2018. ...

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Sep 30, 2019 - In Cancer Care Breast Cancer Awareness Activities and Events Sponsored by Saint Barnabas Medical Center

This October, as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC) and the Barnabas Health Ambulatory Care Center are once again partnering with The Mall at Short Hills to raise awareness for breast health. The Faces of Breast ...

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Sep 30, 2019 - In Cancer Care Saint Barnabas Medical Center Presents “The Faces of Breast Cancer” at The Mall at Short Hills

This October, as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Saint Barnabas Medical Center (SBMC) and the Barnabas Health Ambulatory Care Center are once again partnering with The Mall at Short Hills to raise awareness for breast health. “The Faces of Breast ...

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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 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 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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