(New Brunswick, NJ) – An modern know-how, Ion robotic bronchoscopy, that may assist interventional pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons diagnose lung most cancers earlier is now accessible at Robert Wooden Johnson College Hospital (RWJUH) along with Rutgers Most cancers Institute, the state’s solely Nationwide Most cancers Institute-designated Complete Most cancers Middle in New Brunswick.
Based on the American Most cancers Society (ACS), lung most cancers is the main reason for most cancers dying within the US, accounting for about 1 in 5 of all most cancers deaths. The ACS estimates for lung most cancers within the US for 2025 are:
- About 226,650 new instances of lung most cancers (110,680 in males and 115,970 in girls)
- About 124,730 deaths from lung most cancers (64,190 in males and 60,540 in girls)
As well as, lung most cancers is extra frequent than colon most cancers, breast most cancers, and prostate most cancers and is answerable for extra deaths than these cancers mixed. In New Jersey, roughly 5,800 persons are identified with lung most cancers annually. Nationally 1 out of 4 sufferers with lung most cancers are identified with early-staged illness the place significant survival may be achieved. Using superior applied sciences together with AI, radiomics, and modern know-how (Ion robotic bronchoscopy), interventional pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons can diagnose lung most cancers earlier.
Utilizing robotic-assisted bronchoscopy, docs can now carry out extremely exact, minimally invasive biopsies on nearly all nodules together with the small, difficult-to-reach nodules in peripheral areas of the lungs the place greater than 7 out of 10 of cancerous growths are positioned.
“Early detection and prognosis are essential for lung most cancers sufferers,” explains Neil Ninan, MD, Director of Pulmonary Drugs, Southern Area, RWJBarnabas Well being. “This know-how is a crucial advance that helps us establish and entry small, difficult-to-reach nodules and extra simply carry out biopsies enabling earlier prognosis that may probably result in higher outcomes for sufferers.”
Ion is utilized by interventional pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons to carry out robotic-assisted bronchoscopy. The Ion is accessible at a number of different RWJBarnabas Well being hospitals throughout the state as properly. It makes use of distinctive shape-sensing know-how and robotic-assistance to permit clinicians to navigate to nodules in all 18 segments of the lung and take away tissue for biopsy with precision and accuracy. Its minimally invasive strategy means there could also be much less danger for some sufferers in comparison with different present biopsy methods.
Dr. Ninan provides, “This know-how provides vital advantages to people who’re at excessive danger for lung most cancers equivalent to present or former heavy people who smoke, sufferers who’ve nodules current in difficult-to-reach areas, and sufferers with a historical past of most cancers who’ve suspicious nodules which can be at the moment being monitored.”
RWJUH and Rutgers Most cancers Institute are dedicated to selling the early detection of lung most cancers by way of its Lung Most cancers Screening Program. Along with referrals for robotic-assisted bronchoscopy, the screening program provides:
- Low-dose CT scans
- Centralized scheduling and consumption course of in addition to insurance coverage help
- Smoking cessation providers by way of the RWJBH IFPR Stop Middle
- Coordination of medical specialists
- Interpretation and translation
- Transportation preparations
Present lung most cancers screening pointers for people are:
- 50-80 years previous (as much as age 77 for Medicare individuals)
- Presently smoke or have stop throughout the previous 15 years, has no signs of lung most cancers, and has not had a chest CT scan throughout the previous 12-months.
- A tobacco smoking historical past of no less than 20 pack years. Pack Years = Packs Per Day x Years Smoked.
To schedule a lung most cancers screening appointment, please name Ariel Jimenez, Healthcare Navigator, RWJUH Lung Most cancers Screening Program, at 732-937-8908.
Sufferers who’re identified with lung most cancers have entry to skilled thoracic oncologists and surgical oncologists from the Jack & Sheryl Morris Most cancers Middle. The Morris Most cancers Middle
is positioned on the RWJUH tutorial medical campus in New Brunswick and is New Jersey’s solely freestanding most cancers hospital. Totally opened in September of this yr, the Jack & Sheryl Morris Most cancers Middle homes 88 state-of-the-art infusion chairs and 80 examination rooms for adults and pediatrics, in addition to 96 non-public inpatient rooms, 9 working rooms, radiology, imaging assets within the constructing, 4 model new linear accelerators (LINAC) together with an MR-LINAC, a brachytherapy suite for radiation remedy supply, and interventional radiology suites. Sufferers on the Jack & Sheryl Morris Most cancers Middle can profit from probably the most superior most cancers remedies together with scientific trials, mobile therapies, precision drugs, blood and marrow transplantation, advanced surgical procedures and complex radiation remedy methods.
“Including robotic bronchoscopy to our wide selection of capabilities additional demonstrates our tutorial medical heart’s dedication to pursue each attainable choice to struggle most cancers,” mentioned Andrew Evens, DO, Deputy Director for Scientific Providers, Rutgers Most cancers Institute, and Chief Doctor Officer, Jack & Sheryl Morris Most cancers Middle and Rutgers Most cancers Institute. “Our sufferers may be assured that they’ve entry to excellent scientific care, researchers, scientific trials, superior therapies, and cutting-edge remedies.”
About Robert Wooden Johnson College Hospital
Robert Wooden Johnson College Hospital (RWJUH), an RWJBarnabas Well being Facility, is a 724-bed tutorial medical heart in New Brunswick that’s New Jersey’s largest tutorial medical heart by way of its deep partnership with Rutgers Robert Wooden Johnson Medical Faculty and Rutgers Most cancers Institute. RWJUH is dwelling to the Jack & Sheryl Morris Most cancers Middle and The Bristol-Myers Squibb Kids’s Hospital at Robert Wooden Johnson College Hospital, a nationally-ranked 2025-26 Finest Kids’s Hospital by U.S. Information & World Report. RWJUH is acknowledged by U.S. Information & World Report as a Finest Regional Hospital for 2025-2026 with 19 Excessive Performing Grownup Specialties and Circumstances. Facilities of Excellence embody coronary heart and vascular care from minimally invasive coronary heart surgical procedure to transplantation, most cancers care, stroke care, neuroscience, orthopedics, pediatrics and ladies’s well being. As considered one of solely three state-certified Degree 1 Trauma Facilities and the primary designated Pediatric Trauma Middle within the New Jersey, RWJUH’s campus serves as a nationwide useful resource in its ground-breaking approaches to emergency preparedness.
For extra Info go to us on-line at www.rwjbh.org/newbrunswick
Contact: Peter Haigney
RWJUH Public Relations
(732) 937-8568
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