May/JUNe 2013 - Jersey Shore Medical Center
May/JUNe 2013 - Jersey Shore Medical Center
May/JUNe 2013 - Jersey Shore Medical Center
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Ocean <strong>Medical</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
Brain Surgery<br />
Helps Diagnose<br />
Lung Cancer Patient<br />
For weeks, Noreen Way tried to fight<br />
off dull headaches that never seemed<br />
to go away. Suspecting she had sinus<br />
troubles, the 68-year-old resident of<br />
Manahawkin visited her primary care<br />
physician. But when prescription sinus<br />
medication didn’t control the problem,<br />
Noreen was referred to a neurologist<br />
at Southern Ocean <strong>Medical</strong> <strong>Center</strong> for<br />
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).<br />
There, she learned the devastating<br />
cause of her headaches.<br />
“My neurologist, Dr. [Tommasina]<br />
Papa-Rugino, explained that I had a<br />
brain tumor. It had metastasized from<br />
somewhere else,” Noreen says.<br />
A second, full-body MRI showed<br />
that the cancerous tumor on Noreen’s<br />
Aasim Kazmi, M.D.<br />
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cerebellum, the area of the brain at<br />
the back of the head, had spread<br />
from her lungs. She was diagnosed<br />
with stage 4 lung cancer.<br />
“I was in shock. My only symptom<br />
was a slight shortness of breath,<br />
which I thought was due to my<br />
asthma,” Noreen recalls. “My husband<br />
and I had just come back from Europe<br />
where we traveled all over without<br />
problems. I had no idea I<br />
had cancer.”<br />
Noreen Way enjoys cooking at home<br />
and tending to her garden and koi<br />
pond. She and her husband George<br />
will celebrate their 49th wedding<br />
anniversary in June.<br />
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