About The CINJ Network
The mission of the CINJ Network is to offer the citizens of New Jersey better access to cancer related information and treatment close to where they live. Our team of dedicated network physicians provides individualized care utilizing their extraordinary knowledge and expertise to treat cancer right in the community.
The CINJ Network hospitals are working together to:
- Understand the factors that influence cancer outcomes in our patient populations.
- Improve the quality of cancer care received within our Network.
- Improve the quality of life of our patients and their loved ones.
- Overcome cancer health disparities due to race, geography, educational or socioeconomic status.
- Contribute to the development of new treatments and hasten their availability to patients within our communities.
As one of only 41 NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, CINJ and our affiliate hospitals are held to the nation’s toughest standards. Patients receiving care at CINJ or one of our Network facilities have options only available at NCI-designated cancer centers or its Network member institutions. These include:
- Benefit from access to the latest cancer prevention, early detection and treatment options through the CINJ Oncology Group.
- Treatment at an institution that must uphold the highest standards by meeting the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer criteria for Cancer Programs, given only to those facilities that provide the best in cancer diagnosis and treatment. This requires a detailed on-site review every three years to maintain accreditation.
- Cancer care directed at healthy survivorship. Together, CINJ and its Network of hospitals is working on a variety of topics facing survivors, ranging from diet to sexuality. We are also studying ways of treating cancer with the least side effects so that all cancer survivors are healthy and have a good quality of life.
Services Provided by CINJ to Network Hospitals
- Access to clinical research treatment, prevention and detection protocols, including those of CINJ and National Cooperative Groups through the Cancer Institute of New Jersey Oncology Group (CINJ Oncology Group).
- Centralized clinical research administration and Institutional Review Board (IRB) review compliance, patient enrollment, data collection, and toxicity reporting.
- Training of Research Nurses through courses that address cognitive as well as practical nursing needs.
- Needs-specific assistance with development of clinical research programs, to include on-site education and consultation regarding:
- clinical trial operations and quality assurance procedures
- clinical trial nursing practice
- data management
- organization of Network Institution’s research office
- protocol approval processes
- IRB and regulatory compliance processes
- Provision of consistent senior faculty representation on CINJ Network member Cancer Committees.
- Per request, consultative services including strategic planning, medical, educational, research, marketing, administrative and clinical oncology issues regarding cancer patient care.
- Continuing professional education as requested, including consistent CINJ faculty attendance at affiliate tumor boards and, per request, CINJ faculty-prepared Oncology Grand Rounds.
- Access to participation in CINJ Network task forces and clinical care consortiums. Some of the programs include: Neuro-Oncology Consortium, Supportive Care Task Force, Outreach Task Force, and Health Care Disparity Research Study Group.
- Free access to all CME and other educational programs for physicians held at CINJ.
- Access to all CINJ continuing nursing education programs at reduced or no cost, including:
- Bread and Butter Lectures
- Core Nursing Education Lectures
- CINJ Cancer Chemotherapy Course
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