John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack University Medical Center

The National Cancer Institute has awarded “comprehensive cancer center” status to Georgetown University‘s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Surgeons affiliated with Hackensack Meridian JFK University Medical Center’s Advanced Lung and Airway Center successfully performed the first robotic resection of malignant thymoma, a cancer of the thymus gland, followed by installation of heated chemotherapy into the chest.

The family of Mike and Patti Hennessy made a transformational gift in their memory to establish the Hennessy Institute for Cancer Prevention and Applied Molecular Medicine.