Every day, you encounter pollutants, allergens, or irritating agents. Even when the poisons cannot be seen or felt right away, they can be present, such as in an office with hidden asbestos or in a house with a bad furnace or damp walls.

The greatest interaction with this outside world is through your lungs - a welcome mat for dust, gasses, and toxins that is equal in size to a soccer field. These toxins can impact pre-existing diseases and make them worse. Or, they can actually give you the disease on their own.

The institute is equipped to diagnose and treat occupational and environmental disease, giving us a rare understanding of these often overlooked factors of your condition.

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· Your lungs at work
· How your lungs work
· Why your lungs may not
   be working at their best
· Chronic Bronchitis
· Emphysema
· Asthma
· Occupational and
   Environmental Diseases
· Lung Cancer
· Smoking Cessation
· Pulmonary Rehabilitation
· Interventional Pulmonary
   Services

More than 177,000 people develop lung cancer each year, making it the number-one killing cancer in both men and women. Causes range from smoking and environmental exposure to a possible genetic origin.

Cigarettes are clearly responsible for lung cancer becoming the number-one killing cancer in both men and women. But there is good news and much hope as well. Today, lung cancer is more treatable, more operable, and more survivable than ever, thanks to the advanced treatments provided at Hackensack University Medical Center.

We trace much of this success to our multimodality approach (many specialists teaming up on each case), utilizing the latest advances in thoracic surgery, pulmonary medicine, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. And because of our university status, some of the world's most promising, experimental treatments are readily available to us and our patients.

Our Lung Cancer Division has been built around the finest facilities and the brightest, most experienced teams of thoracic surgical oncologists, and pulmonologists with the best cancer training in the world.

Most important, we understand the difference it makes in the healing process and survival rate when the patient is treated with the honesty, compassion, and respect that one deserves as a person, not as another number on a case chart.

Every option available will be explored so that you can receive the best treatment program possible for your condition.

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Smoking Cessation

Smoking (nicotine) is as addictive as any hard drug, such as heroin or morphine. But, if you want a chance at breathing easier and living a full, quality life, you have no choice. You have to quit now. And you can do it.

Easy enough for us to say, right? Because even after you learn more about the connection between your breathing problem and smoking habit, you still may not be able to stop. Without help.

That's why we have created our Smoking Cessation Program.

With experienced staff members who have helped others, you will reach your destination: a new, smoke-free environment called your lungs.

For more information call 201-996-2211

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