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 The Leon Hess Cancer Center has established a Center of Excellence
in Gastrointestinal Cancer Care that focuses on multidisciplinary
collaboration across the continuum to ensure high-quality care.
Under the medical direction of Michael Arvanitis,
M.D., chief
of Colon and Rectal Surgery at Monmouth, the center has implemented
the following three initiatives under guidelines established by
the American Cancer Society for GI cancer screening, education
and surveillance:
provides a forum
for physicians and other health care professionals
from all disciplines to evaluate and discuss patient cases and
collectively determine proper courses of treatment. The conference
is held every second Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. in MMC’s Borden
Auditorium.
offers a multispecialty
team approach to the assessment of family risk, genetic counseling
and testing, and the treatment of polyps and cancer. The registry’s
main role is to educate high-risk patients with a family history
of colorectal cancer about the disease, placing an emphasis on
the importance of lifelong surveillance through appropriate testing.
Patients enrolled in the registry remain under the care of their
referring physicians.
offers high-risk
colorectal patients “one-stop” assessment services.
During an afternoon appointment at one convenient location, patients
meet with the registry’s coordinator to document a medical
history and to prepare family pedigrees. They also undergo appropriate
testing and meet with genetic counselors and geneticists. Anyone
with an inherited colorectal cancer syndrome is considered to
be at risk and can access the clinic’s services. For more
information, contact:
Sherry Campbell Grumet, MA, MS
High Risk Cancer Assessment Program
Familial Colorectal Cancer
Registry Program
300 Second Ave, BBR4
Long Branch, NJ 07740
Phone: 732-923-6711
Fax: 732-923-7449
For more information regarding our GI program, contact:
Laura Gallo
r
Familial Colorectal Cancer Registry Program
Email: lgallo@barnabashealth.org
Phone: 732-923-6509
Fax: 732-923-6577
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