Breast Cancer Treatment and Care

We treat all types of benign and cancerous breast conditions, including:

• Ductal carcinoma in situ
• Inflammatory breast cancer
• Invasive ductal carcinoma
• Invasive lobular carcinoma
• Triple-negative breast cancer
• Benign (non-cancerous) breast conditions

Our Breast Care Program provides the most advanced diagnostic screening and imaging services throughout New Jersey and the Greater New York Metropolitan Area. You’ll also find advanced, top-rated breast cancer services at convenient locations across our region. 

• John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center 
• HOPE Tower at Jersey Shore University Medical Center
• JFK University Medical Center
• Hackensack University Medical Center Institute For Breast Care
• Mountainside Medical Center's Women's Breast Center
• Ocean University Medical Center
• Palisades Medical Center
• Riverview Medical Center
• Southern Ocean Medical Center
• Toms River Regional Cancer Center

The imaging specialists at our cancer center have advanced training in breast imaging and only interpret breast images, providing them with laser-focused expertise.

3D Mammograms with Same-day Results: Also called digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), this breast cancer screening technology is more sensitive than conventional 2D breast mammography for detecting breast cancer, especially for women with dense or fatty breasts.

Breast MRI: This highly sensitive breast imaging is sometimes used in conjunction with breast mammography to screen women who have an elevated risk of breast cancer.

Breast Ultrasound: We use sound waves to image the breast and provide additional breast cancer screening information.

Core Needle Breast Biopsy: If your breast imaging exams indicate that you need an ultrasound-guided breast biopsy, we can often provide a same-day breast biopsy.

Genetic Counseling: Our high-risk Breast Cancer Program provides risk assessment and genetic testing for breast cancer genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2 so we can design follow-up and support care that is specific to your needs.

Consultations and Second Opinion: If you had a breast cancer screening or diagnostic breast mammogram at another facility, you can seek an additional assessment, breast biopsy, consultation or second opinion with our team of breast cancer radiologists, breast surgeons and pathologists.

• Chemotherapy and Personalized Treatment: We study your breast cancer tumor to identify genetic mutations and learn about the molecular signals involved in your breast cancer’s growth. We use the results to match you with breast cancer therapies that will best target the biology of your breast cancer.
• Hormonal Therapy: If lab tests determine that your breast cancer tumor is estrogen-positive (ER+) or progesterone-positive (PR+), this breast cancer treatment option can be used to block your body's natural hormones from reaching any remaining breast cancer cells.

• Accelerated (Hypofractionated) Radiation Therapy: Eligible patients can receive a higher dose of radiation delivered over a shorter overall treatment course, reducing the number of weeks you need to come in for treatment.
• Brachytherapy: This treatment involves temporary or permanent implantation of radioactive substances to kill breast cancer cells.
• Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT): We take images of your breast cancer tumor before each treatment so we can customize the radiation to the breast cancer tumor’s size and shape as it shrinks and changes position, giving you only the dose you need and reducing exposure to noncancerous tissues.
• Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT): IMRT directs radiation of various intensities, shaped to the contours of a breast cancer tumor, from a variety of angles to destroy tumor tissue while sparing normal breast tissue as much as possible.
• Prone Radiation Therapy: This advanced breast cancer treatment allows us to direct radiation to the breast while sparing lung and heart tissue and reducing the risk of late-term side effects.

Our breast surgeons are nationally recognized experts with extensive experience in every type of breast cancer surgery.

• Lumpectomy: This breast-conserving surgery removes the portion of the breast that contains the cancer, and some surrounding normal tissue.   
• Mastectomy: The entire breast is removed, including all of the breast tissue. If both breasts are removed, this is called a double mastectomy.

Our breast reconstruction surgeons are skilled in the latest plastic and reconstructive surgery techniques, including breast implants and flap reconstruction procedures—groundbreaking breast reconstructive surgeries that require surgical expertise.