Mount Sinai and Valley Health System to form partnership

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MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM and Valley Health System plan to form a partnership that will enable Valley to access Mount Sinai’s roster of clinical trials, as well as develop new programs and services.

In December 2015, Valley and Mount Sinai announced plans to collaborate on clinical programs, research and educational offerings. Mount Sinai and Valley plan to work together at Valley’s Blumenthal Cancer Center in Paramus and the main campus in Ridgewood by establishing a linked clinical information system.

According to Robert Korst, medical director of Valley’s Blumenthal Cancer Center, among the first Mount Sinai clinical trials that Valley patients will have access to include new treatments and treatment protocols for cutaneous malignancies, including melanoma and other skin cancers; genitourinary malignancies, including prostate and kidney cancers; and hematologic cancers and serious blood disorders, including leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and myelodysplastic syndromes. Some treatment protocols will include bone marrow transplantation and immunotherapeutic vaccines.

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