As a healthcare professional, Margaret Ames understood the value of having a topnotch cancer care team during her battle with breast cancer.
RWJBarnabas Health and Monmouth Medical Center, in partnership with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey—the state’s only NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center—provide close-to-home access to the most advanced treatment options. Call 844.CANCERNJ or visit www.rwjbh.org/beatcancer.
‘COMPASSIONATE PROFESSIONALS’ AN EXCEPTIONAL SURGICAL TEAM GUIDES A WOMAN THROUGH HER BREAST CANCER JOURNEY.
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earning you have breast cancer can upend your world. That was certainly the case for Margaret Ames, Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Patient Services at Jersey City Medical Center. She found out about her cancer in November 2020 after what she expected would be a routine mammogram. “I got the diagnosis the week before Thanksgiving,” she recalls. The holidays abruptly turned somber as Margaret began exploring treatment options. But she didn’t become Healthy Together
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overwhelmed. “I tend to emote in a very rational way, so I began my process of, ‘What’s the next step, and how do I get it taken care of?’” she says. She and her husband, Scott Ames, MD, a transplant surgeon, didn’t have to ponder where to turn for answers. As an employee at RWJBarnabas Health (RWJBH), Margaret knew its deep expertise in breast cancer. “I had several excellent doctors,” Margaret says. Among them were boardcertified internal medicine physician and medical oncologist Seth Cohen, MD,
Regional Director of Oncology Services for the RWJBarnabas Health Southern Region; board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon Gregory A. Greco, DO, Chief of Plastic Surgery and General Surgery Residency Program Director at Monmouth Medical Center (MMC); plastic surgeon Negin Griffith, MD; and board-certified and fellowship-trained breast surgeon Manpreet K. Kohli, MD, Director of Breast Surgery at MMC. “They were a team I felt particularly connected to,” Margaret says. “They approached
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