Brain Tumor Center

Centralized Access to Advanced Treatment Options

Since the David S. Zocchi Brain Tumor Center falls under the ever-widening umbrella of comprehensive cancer services offered through the Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth, patients have centralized access to the most advanced diagnostic tools to locate cancer and the latest in sophisticated methods of cancer treatment found anywhere in the region, including:

-- Neurosurgery
-- Radiation therapy, including IMRT, IGRT, 3-D conformal radiotherapy, and stereotactic radiosurgery
-- Chemotherapy

Surgery: Cornerstone of Treatment

While many CNS tumors are most effectively treated with a combination of therapies, surgery is considered the mainstay of brain tumor treatment and involves removing as much of the abnormal growth as possible with minimal damage to surrounding healthy tissue.

Monmouth’s neurosurgery team members — all of whom are affiliated with the Neurological Institute of New York at Columbia University Medical Center — brings to Monmouth Medical Center some of the most progressive surgeries to manage tumors of the central nervous system.

Among their specialties is the performance of highly specialized “awake brain surgery” for deep lesions in the brain. Monmouth recently joined a handful of hospitals in the country offering this procedure, which allows neurosurgeons to delineate or “map” exact locations of the most delicate areas of the brain’s cortex so they can be preserved during surgical removal of the tumor.

For more information on the Department of Neurological Surgery, click here.

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