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May 23, 2024 Safeguard Your Health in Every Decade Cervical Cancer

A woman’s guide to key screenings and other steps that can improve well-being throughout life. Women’s health concerns often focus on milestones such as pregnancy, childbirth and menopause. But day-to-day and year-to-year health maintenance and preventive ...

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Feb 1, 2024 What Cancers Can You Be Screened for and When? Cervical Cancer

Cancer screenings are medical tests done when you are healthy, with no signs of illness. They help find cancer early, when the chances for successfully treating the disease are highest. Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey together with RWJBarnabas ...

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Jan 25, 2024 Experts Address the Latest on Cervical Cancer Treatment Cervical Cancer

Although the incidence of cervical cancer has declined with increased screening and higher uptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, cervical cancer remains the second highest cause of cancer mortality among women in low- and middle-income ...

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Sep 7, 2023 Gynecologic Cancers: Know Your Body, Empower Each Other Cervical Cancer

Gynecologic cancer is the growth and spread of cancer cells in the cervix, ovaries, uterus, fallopian tubes, vagina, vulva– also known as the reproductive organs. Eugenia Girda, MD, FACOG, a gynecologic oncologist at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey ...

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Aug 8, 2023 Steeplechase Distance Run Set for Sept. 24 Cervical Cancer

The 15th annual Steeplechase Distance Run will be held Sunday, Sept. 24 at Amsterdam School in Hillsborough and as a virtual event to raise funds for the Steeplechase Cancer Center at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Somerset, an RWJBarnabas ...

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Jun 6, 2023 The LGBTQ+ Community is Disproportionately Burdened by Cancer Cervical Cancer

Cancer health disparities are differences in cancer burden experienced by racial and ethnic minorities and other medically underserved populations including individuals from sexual and gender minorities. Discrimination based on gender identity and/or ...

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Jun 2, 2023 What Everyone Should Know About HPV Cervical Cancer

Vaccination Works Best Before Young People Become Sexually Active. With so much attention focused on vital COVID-19 vaccines, other important inoculations are sometimes overlooked, says Dharti Panara, MD, a family medicine physician at Robert Wood Johnson ...

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Jan 3, 2023 What's the Connection Between HPV and Cervical Cancer? And More Questions You’re Reluctant to Ask Cervical Cancer

Cervical cancer is one of the most preventable cancers, yet more than 14,000 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with the disease this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Cervical cancer is often stigmatized due to its association with human ...

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Dec 14, 2022 Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Earns National Accreditation from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons Cervical Cancer

The Commission on Cancer (CoC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has once again granted Three-Year Accreditation to the cancer program at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (CBMC), Livingston, NJ, an RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH) ...

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