Leon Hess Cancer Center at
Monmouth Medical Center
Offering the Most Advanced Care, Delivered with Compassion
and Expertise
About the Leon Hess Cancer Center
Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth Medical Center stands at the forefront of providing the most extensive array of highly advanced cancer services, delivered by a team of specialists in a caring and supportive environment.
For four decades, Monmouth Medical Center’s leadership role in oncology services has been broadened through the ongoing expansion of state-of-the-art programs and technologies offered in all areas of cancer prevention, detection and treatment. The Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth brings together a variety of specialists in a convenient setting to offer comprehensive cancer services.
Illustrating its prominence as a leading academic cancer center, Monmouth Medical Center is accredited by the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons as a "teaching hospital cancer center" — the group's highest designation that is held by only one-fifth of all U.S. hospitals with cancer programs. And because a thorough analysis of the outcomes of diagnosis and treatment is crucial, Monmouth Medical Center offers a cancer registry that analyzes the cancer center’s significant patient volume. The Leon Hess Cancer Center Cancer Registry maintains detailed information on each cancer incidence, treatment and outcome.
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Click below to make a gift in support of the Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth Medical Center, and read below for details on our comprehensive oncology services.
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Centralizing Complex Care Under One Roof
The Leon Hess Cancer Center centralizes a vast array of outpatient services under one roof, making care more convenient, efficient and effective. It features comprehensive multidisciplinary medical services that are led by teams of three major physician specialists whom patients can see all in one visit, including:
Surgical Oncology - A surgeon who can order diagnostic tests, perform a biopsy to determine if a tumor is malignant and/or operate to remove cancerous growths.
Medical Oncology - A medical oncologist or hematologist who can prescribe chemotherapy that kills the cancer cells.
Radiation Oncology - A radiation oncologist who can pinpoint the places where cancer is growing and use precisely focused X-rays to reduce or destroy it.
Together, these three cancer specialists, in consultation with each patient’s primary care physician, and in conjunction with the hospital’s Cancer Care Management Team, work to create the most appropriate and effective plan of treatment. The cancer center provides patient-focused outpatient chemotherapy, infusion and transfusion services, as well as specialized oncology inpatient care.
In addition the center offers cancer research clinical trial opportunities as well as providing patients and their loved ones a host of associated support services, including:
* Genetic counseling through a High-Risk Cancer Assessment Program
* Cancer rehabilitation program
* Nutrition assessment and counseling
* Psychological counseling
* Pastoral care
* Social services
* Pain and symptom management
* Wound Care
Offering Centers of Excellence in Cancer Care
At the Leon Hess Cancer Center, Multidisciplinary Disease Site Centers (MDSCs) were established to centralize and streamline patient visits. Our goal is to make your visit to Leon Hess Cancer Center patient friendly. The Leon Hess Cancer Center offers Centers of Excellence in cancer treatment through a host of multidisciplinary treatment sites, including:
Jacqueline M. Wilentz Comprehensive Breast Center
Committed to meeting the breast health care needs of all women, the center is the region’s only facility to offer a multidisciplinary approach to breast care -- both well care and cancer care. The Jacqueline M. Wilentz Comprehensive Breast Center provides a comfortable and supportive setting in which all outpatient breast health care services are found in one convenient location. Weekly multidisciplinary team meetings are held where cases are reviewed and treatment options are discussed.
Patricia Burton High Risk Colorectal Cancer Program
Designed to evaluate, educate and closely monitor individuals who are at high risk for developing colorectal cancer, the high risk colorectal cancer program takes a coordinated approach to care. As part of the program, a high risk team works closely with each patient at high risk to develop a personal colorectal health plan and to educate them about the disease.
Head and Neck Cancer Program
At Monmouth Medical Center, otolaryngological (Ear, Nose and Throat, or ENT) surgeons are treating a host of head and neck cancers through a multidisciplinary team approach in a caring and supportive environment that supports prompt and effective care. The program also provides services that help patients and their families adapt to living with a cancer diagnosis. Monthly multidisciplinary team meetings are held where cases are reviewed and treatment options are discussed.
Lung Cancer Program
Dedicated to the early detection, diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, which claims more lives than any other form of cancer. The only facility of its kind in Monmouth and Ocean counties, the center offers the most advanced array of state-of-the-art diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitative services, provided in one convenient location.
David Zocchi Brain Tumor Center
Offering patients the latest, most advanced treatment options, and a multidisciplinary team specializing in the management of a host of brain tumors, and through close collaboration, providing individualized patient care. During sessions of the multidisciplinary Brain Tumor Board, treatment options are reviewed, and for those patients with recurrent tumors, experimental treatments and research protocols will be explored. At this center, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, medical and radiation oncologists, neuroradiologists and pathologists work together to develop treatment strategies for brain cancer.
Valerie Fund Center for Children with Cancer and Blood Disorders
Providing comprehensive medical services for children with cancer and blood disorders such as sickle cell anemia, thalassemia and thrombocytopenia. Children and young adults (birth to 21 years of age) with leukemias and other cancers are treated according to the most advanced therapeutic protocols. The center is a member of the Children’s Cancer Group, an international cancer research group sponsored by the National Cancer Institute.
Close ‘Family Ties’ Held at Leon Hess Multidisciplinary Cancer Center
Naming Monmouth Medical Center’s multidisciplinary cancer center in honor of the late philanthropist Leon Hess has special significance for his “extended” prominent New Jersey family, as well as for Monmouth Medical Center.
Before the founder of energy giant Amerada Hess Corp. died in 1999, he established the New York-based Hess Foundation, which today is led by Mrs. Leon (Norma) Hess, the sister-in-law of the late Jacqueline M. Wilentz — after whom Monmouth’s breast center is named. Jacqueline, who died of breast cancer, was the wife of Mrs. Hess’ brother — Robert Wilentz, former chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who also lost his life to cancer.
In addition, the late Lester A. Barnett, M.D., former chief of surgery at Monmouth, was a childhood friend of Leon Hess — a relationship they retained through adulthood as the Hesses maintained a summer residence in Long Branch.
Throughout his life, Dr. Barnett played an instrumental role in supporting fund-raising efforts for Monmouth, particularly for the expansion of cancer services He died in April 2002, shortly after he helped make possible the extraordinary $3 million gift from the Hess Foundation.
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Click below to make a gift in support of the Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth Medical Center.
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For More Information
To learn more about the programs and services of the Leon Hess Cancer Center at Monmouth, or to learn about giving opportunities, call Monmouth Medical Center at 732-923-6575. For a referral to an oncology specialist, call Monmouth’s toll-free physician referral service at 1-888-724-7123.
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