The Valley Health System is headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey but has many different locations depending on the type of treatment needed. The mission of the Valley Health System is, “Enhancing lives by healing, caring and inspiring wellness” and their values are to serve and care.
The Valley Health System treats patients with lung cancer and mesothelioma at the Lung Cancer Center. The team at the Lung Cancer Center focuses on early detection of cancer, so that the best possible treatment can be utilized. Valley believes that patients should choose to go to them for care because they have surgical expertise. The surgeons there are thoracic surgeons who are board-certified. What is distinct about these surgeons is that they mostly focus on lung cancer patients instead of their focus being on types of other surgeries. There are minimally invasive options for surgery, there is precision radiation therapy and they offer personalized medicine. To offer personalized medicine they use mutational analysis on lung cancers that are removed by surgery or that are biopsied. Additionally, Valley offers clinical trials and research. They have a Pulmonary Nodule Center as well.
Treatment offered at Valley includes chemotherapy, radiation therapy, video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and immunotherapy. Chemotherapy may be administered before radiation therapy. This is known as neoadjunct chemotherapy. It may also be administered after radiation or surgery to destroy cancer cells that are still present. This is known as adjunct therapy. Patients who undergo chemotherapy may experience fatigue, hair loss, nausea and other symptoms. There is an on-site pharmacist who pays close attention to the medication requirements of each patient. Valley believes that you should choose them for chemotherapy because they offer a wide range of services for patients who are receiving chemotherapy. They offer a chemotherapy check-in. This involves seeing a doctor or nurse on the day that you receive the chemotherapy to go over everything and to get any questions answered. There are also chemotherapy nurses on the Valley Hospital unit and in the Luckow Infusion Center. Nurses are also there to help reduce patient’s stress through different relaxation techniques, including visualization. Other techniques offered include guided imagery, aromatherapy, therapeutic touch and Reiki. Additionally, Valley offers scalp coolings for patients experiencing hair loss, which is a treatment that can help prevent hair loss. At Valley, they have a team approach to treatment. Treatment teams include doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical assistants, dietitians, social workers and financial advocates.
Valley offers radiation therapy as well. Ways in which radiation therapy can be used are as palliative therapy to help with the symptoms that cancer causes, before surgery to shrink a tumor to the size that it is able to be removed, with chemotherapy or other drugs used to treat cancer, by itself or after surgery. The two main types of radiation therapy are external beam and internal radiation. Valley believes that patients should choose to go to them for radiation therapy for a multitude of reasons. They have a focus on patient safety. Their goal is to affect the least number of healthy tissues as possible and they use multiple techniques to do so. They also bring innovative expertise where they use the latest technologies to help treat patients. Additionally, they provide accredited radiation care. The radiation oncology program is accredited through the American Society for Radiation Oncology’s Accreditation Program for Excellence and the American College of Radiology.
At Valley, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) is used to treat lung cancer. There are many benefits to VATS. These include less pain medication needed, less trauma to the chest wall than with other surgeries, faster recovery and less pain in general.
Immunotherapy uses the body’s own natural defenses to fight cancer and it is provided at Valley. It is usually recommended earlier in the treatment journey and treatment is usually given every two to four weeks. Some reasons why Valley believes patients should choose them for immunotherapy treatment include clinical trials, a treatment that addresses the whole person with a team of many people, an immunotherapy check in and expertise with immunotherapy side effects.
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