Your breast health deserves the best and most compassionate care. At 麻豆传媒高清版, our team of doctors, surgeons and nurses are dedicated to your health and well-being so that you can live as fully as possible.
The 麻豆传媒高清版 Breast Center is here to give you exceptional guidance, care, treatment and support. We care for patients of all ages who have been diagnosed with breast cancer, as well as help our patients prevent cancer and receive support throughout survivorship.
Exceptional Breast Health Specialists
The 麻豆传媒高清版 Breast Center includes exemplary doctors who specialize in all areas of treating breast cancer. Our team includes surgical oncologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, plastic surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, geneticists, dieticians, nurses and nurse navigators that specialize pre-cancerous and malignant (cancerous) breast conditions.
At the Breast Center, our patients know that they are being treated by highly accomplished and experienced physicians who prioritize compassionate care and comfort.
Personalized, Expert Care Throughout New York
Commitment to equity:听Our team is deeply aware of disparities in all areas of breast cancer care. We are committed to improving care for all and ending inequities throughout New York City 鈥 and beyond.
All patients deserve the very best in care. As our patient, we focus on your total health and well-being. We are dedicated to providing respectful, compassionate and expert breast cancer care to all patients, including our patients of color, LGBTQ+ patients and male patients.
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Comfortable, convenient locations for your care:听Our Breast Center physicians care for patients throughout New York City, including at locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. Our primary location is the beautiful David H. Koch Center located at 1283 York Avenue, between East 68th and 69th Streets, on the fourth floor. This innovative facility offers individualized, integrated outpatient care. 麻豆传媒高清版 partners with NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the top hospital systems in New York City and the U.S., nationally recognized for compassionate, exemplary care.
The David H. Koch Center aims to make the experience stress-free and convenient with:
- Private waiting and recovery rooms in the surgical suite
- Comfortable, beautiful and private rooms for your care
- Cold caps (hats that cool the scalp during chemotherapy treatments to minimize hair loss)
- Restaurant-quality food on-site
- Access nurse navigators to coordinate multidisciplinary care
Innovative research:听Above and beyond treating our patients, our physicians are also leading research to improve breast cancer management. As a scientifically based academic institution, we are at the forefront of the latest treatments and advances in care.
Our physicians and surgeons conduct research to strengthen knowledge regarding all aspects of breast cancer, including its causes. Led by Dr. Lisa Newman, the Breast Center is home to the听(ICSBCS), which contributes to our understanding of breast cancer by studying the causes of race- and ethnicity-associated variations in the disease.
As a patient, you can choose to participate听听to receive a new and promising advance in treatment. If your doctor believes that you may qualify for one of the studies being conducted at our Breast Center, they will discuss this option with you. By joining a clinical trial, you help advance medical knowledge of breast health and breast cancer treatment.
Comprehensive Breast Cancer Care and Related Services
The Breast Center provides supportive, expert care to help you achieve the best possible breast health and quality of life. Our doctors are dedicated to educating you regarding your diagnosis so that you can make decisions about your care with confidence.
Our team provides:
- Genetic risk assessment and counseling听
- Complementary care services听to ease pain, neuropathy, fatigue, insomnia, stress, anxiety and more
- Routine screening and comprehensive breast health monitoring for early detection
- Expertise in听precision medicine听and liquid biopsy technologies听
- Multidisciplinary management options for benign (non-cancerous), precancerous and cancerous breast conditions
- Reconstructive breast surgery, including:
- Breast-conserving management for cancer
- Advanced oncoplastic surgical approaches that combine plastic surgery techniques with surgical cancer treatments, such as nipple-sparing mastectomy
- Expertise in autologous (flap and diep) and implant reconstruction
- Cosmetic approaches to scar management
- Expertise with nerve-grafting to preserve sensation with the nipple-sparing mastectomy surgery
- Support throughout breast cancer survivorship听
- Specialized care for听breast cancer patients age 45 and younger听
- Specialized care for advanced and metastatic breast cancer, including a precision medicine program
- Emotional support for lifelong well-being
Precision medicine:听As our patient, you will receive a unique care plan based on your individual health. We support you at every step to help you achieve the best possible health and quality of life.
In addition to individualized care, you also have access to our precision medicine approach, an advanced approach to treating breast cancer as precisely as possible to avoid overtreatment or unnecessary treatments.听Learn more about precision medicine at the 麻豆传媒高清版 Breast Center.听
Radiation oncology expertise:听As our patient at the 麻豆传媒高清版 Breast Center, you may receive care from our nationally recognized听radiation oncology听 experts. Our radiation oncology team uses the most advanced technology and highest standards of care. Patients at 麻豆传媒高清版 consistently require shorter regimens of radiation treatment compared to other institutions.听
Who We Care For
Our multidisciplinary team helps patients of all races, ethnicities, genders and gender identities.
If you are concerned about a new breast problem, are at high risk for breast cancer (have a family history of cancers, are of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage or have been told that you have dense breast tissue on a mammogram) or have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, we welcome you to schedule an appointment with the care team.
If you are a prospective patient in need of imaging services, our expert听radiology physicians听can work with you and your OB/GYN or primary care physician to ensure the proper referrals and screening occurs.
Upon contacting the Breast Center, you will be connected to our access team to engage in an intake process to begin the coordination of care process.