Find Leading Breast Cancer Doctors in New Jersey
When you are looking for a breast cancer expert, you want a doctor with experience, access to the latest treatment technologies, and someone who stays current with the latest developments in breast cancer care. Our breast cancer doctors not only fit those criteria, but they work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to evaluate each patient and recommend the best possible treatment options.
Our nationally recognized breast cancer doctors provide the most advanced treatment options, including:
- Clinical trials
- Immunotherapy
- Precision medicine
- Complex surgical procedures
- Advanced radiation therapy techniques
Our comprehensive approach ensures access to the best breast cancer treatment, and our unwavering attention to patient care, comfort, and convenience allows you to focus on your health.
Our Breast Cancer Team
Breast Cancer Surgeons
Many individuals with breast cancer have surgery as part of their treatment. Our breast cancer surgeons specialize in:
- Lymph node biopsy. Lymphs filter harmful things, like germs, from the body. A lymph node biopsy is commonly used to check for cancer. Breast cancer surgeons take out a small lymph node tissue sample and send it to a specialist, who carefully examines it under a microscope. This helps diagnose cancer or determine if it has gone to another area. It can also look for the cause of the common symptom of swollen lymph nodes.
- Lumpectomy. Surgery to remove cancerous breast tissue and a surrounding rim of normal tissue called the surgical margin. Breast cancer surgeons can preserve the remaining breast and breast sensation with this procedure. It may be referred to as a wide local excision, segmental resection, breast-conserving surgery, or partial mastectomy.
- Mastectomy. Breast cancer surgeons remove the whole breast with this procedure. There are several different types of mastectomies, including simple mastectomy, skin-sparing mastectomy, nipple-sparing mastectomy, modified radical mastectomy, radical mastectomy, and double mastectomy. The procedures are usually only performed when cancer does not respond to other treatments, there are large tumors, and when breast-conserving surgery is not able to completely remove cancer.
- Breast reconstruction. Breast reconstruction may be performed during or after a mastectomy. Breast implants and flap reconstruction, for example, are two methods to help reconstruct the breast.
Medical Oncologists
A breast cancer medical oncologist plays an important role in the treatment plan. They specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer through the use of:
- Chemotherapy. Powerful drugs are used to kill fast-growing cancerous cells in the body. Chemotherapy drugs may be used alone or in combination with other treatment options to treat breast cancer.
- Hormonal therapy. This type of therapy blocks estrogen and progesterone, two naturally occurring hormones, from attaching to cancer cells. Or, it may decrease the body’s production of these hormones. When these hormones cannot access cancer cells, cancer cells may die and tumor growth may slow down.
- Biological therapy. This type of treatment uses the body's immune system to fight breast cancer. It is focused on enabling the body to recognize and kill breast cancer cells. There are several different types of biological therapy, and some may only be offered through clinical trials.
- Targeted therapy. This type of therapy uses drugs to target specific genes and proteins involved in the growth and survival of breast cancer cells. It can decrease breast cancer tissue growth and development or it can target cells, like blood vessel cells, that cause cancer growth. Targeted therapy is often prescribed along with chemotherapy and other breast cancer treatments.
Radiation Oncologists
A radiation oncologist uses the therapeutic properties of radiation to treat and cure cancer. A radiation oncologist has the important job of determining how radiation fits into a breast cancer treatment plan.
During a radiation procedure, radiation oncologists carefully determine where the radiation will be delivered and what type of radiation to use.
External beam radiation therapy directs radiation from an external source outside the body to the breast cancer site.
Internal radiation therapy utilizes a carefully placed solid or liquid radiation source inside the body.
Meet Our Breast Cancer Teams
Learn more about our breast cancer team of experts by clicking on the facility below to help you with building your breast cancer doctor team.
- Clara Maass Medical Center Breast Cancer Team
- Community Medical Center Breast Cancer Team
- Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center Breast Cancer Team
- Jersey City Medical Center Breast Cancer Team
- Monmouth Medical Center Breast Cancer Team
- Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus Breast Cancer Team
- Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
- RWJ University Hospital Hamilton Breast Cancer Team
- RWJ University Hospital New Brunswick Breast Cancer Team
- RWJ University Hospital Rahway Breast Cancer Team
- RWJ University Hospital Somerset Breast Cancer Team
Your breast cancer team includes advanced practice nurses and certified professionals with advanced credentials in cancer specialty care. Oncology nurse navigators help secure appointments, coordinate follow-up visits related to treatments and procedures, and guide you through aspects of survivorship.
To schedule an appointment with one of New Jersey’s best breast cancer specialists call 844-CANCERNJ or 844-226-2376.
