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CENTER OPENS TO TREAT GYNECOLOGICAL CANCERS
Lorna Rodriguez, MD, PhD, (right), chief of gynecologic oncology at CINJ and a specialist in researching the biochemical steps of ovarian cancer metastasis, will serve as director of the new center. She is also an associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS). Darlene Gibbon, MD, (left), an assistant professor at RWJMS and the Cancer Institute, will work with Rodriguez to establish the new center. She specializes in researching and testing new therapies for ovarian, cervical and endometrial cancers. The Fannie E. Rippel Foundation Center for Women’s Reproductive Cancers will be housed in the new, 150,000-square-foot CINJ facility, to be built adjacent to the current building. Ground will be broken in November and construction is scheduled to be completed in spring 2003. Over the next two years, Rodriguez will recruit five to six specialists in women’s reproductive cancers to join the center. The Cancer Institute currently treats about 190 women with gynecological cancers, most from New Jersey. Some of the women are enrolled in clinical trials using new drugs. The expansion of the Institute will allow CINJ, an outpatient facility, to increase its patient population from 40,000 each year to an anticipated 70,000 to 80,000. |
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$1 million gift by the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation of Bernards Township
will found a center for researching and treating women’s reproductive
cancers. The donation was made in April to The Cancer Institute of New
Jersey (CINJ) in New Brunswick, a primary affiliate of UMDNJ and the state’s
only National Cancer Institute-designated clinical cancer center. The
overall mission of the foundation is to fund projects that further the
current understanding and treatment of cancer and heart disease, address
the issues facing elderly women and provide facilities and equipment for
hospitals.