Cancer
At Mount Sinai Brooklyn, we understand how difficult a new cancer diagnosis can be. That’s why we provide the most advanced treatments close to home. As part of the Mount Sinai Health System, our practice offers world-class care in an intimate, neighborhood setting. In addition, the Mount Sinai Brooklyn-Infusion Center provides a wide range of services—including chemotherapy and immunotherapy—in the convenience of our community. Our board certified doctors, oncology certified nurses, and other specialized team members work together to provide the best possible care for our patients.
At Mount Sinai Brooklyn, we offer our cancer patients these support services to help as they go through treatment:
- Nutritional counseling
- Social work services
- Spiritual care
- Palliative care
Our Cancer Support and Wellness Calendar outlines the vast array of services available to all cancer patients at the Mount Sinai Health System.
Conditions We Treat
Our approach begins with listening to your concerns and helping you fully understand your condition and treatment options so we can work together to design a personalized plan. Our specialists are skilled in providing a wide range of oncology services for a variety of cancers including:
- Breast cancer
- Chronic leukemia
- Colorectal cancers (colon, rectal, and anal)
- Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers (colon, esophagus, stomach, small and large bowel, and gallbladder)
- Gynecologic cancer
- Head and neck cancers
- Lymphoma
- Melanoma
- Multiple myeloma
- Thoracic cancers (lung and esophageal)
- Urologic cancers (prostate, kidney, and bladder)
Services We Provide
Understanding that each patient is different, our teams take a multidisciplinary approach. Our surgeons, oncologists, radiation oncologists, and other specialists work together to personalize treatment plans by drawing on the newest evidence-based technologies.
Our surgeons are skilled in the latest minimally invasive approaches, including da Vinci robotics systems, which can help surgeons operate with greater precision while offering patients less scarring, shorter hospital stays, and quicker recovery times.
To catch cancer early, Mount Sinai Brooklyn also offers a number of screening services, including:
- Lung cancer screening (which uses low-dose CT scans to find malignancies)
- Mammography
- Sonography of the breast
- Sonography of pelvis
- Colonoscopies
- HPV screenings
Hematology Services
Mount Sinai Brooklyn specialists are highly skilled in treating a wide range of blood-related disorders, including cancers. As part of the Mount Sinai Health System, our team puts the most advanced therapies and research to work for our patients, including chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapy, blood transfusions, intravenous fluid administrations, and supportive treatments such as growth factors. We work closely with the Mount Sinai Brooklyn-Infusion Center to provide convenient, coordinated care to our community.
Our experienced team treats cancers of the blood and bone marrow, including:
- Chronic leukemias, including myelogenous leukemia and lymphocytic leukemia
- Hodgkin’s and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Multiple myeloma
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Myelofibrosis
The benign blood disorders we treat include:
- Anemia
- Bleeding disorders
- Clotting disorders
- Low or high platelet count, such as essential thrombocythemia
- Low or high white cell count
- Polycythemia (a high number of red blood cells)
Meet Our Oncology Team
At Mount Sinai Brooklyn, we provide the newest available cancer services in a community setting. Our specialists take the time to build a relationship with each patient and family to ensure you receive superior, personalized care.
Learn more about our Brooklyn oncology team:
- Ardeshir Hakami-Kermani, MD (Thoracic Cancer Surgery)
- Arvind Kamthan, MD (Medical Oncology)
- Le Min Lee, MD (Hematology-Oncology)
- Sofya Pintova, MD (Gastrointestinal Oncology)
- Santiago Thibaud, MD (Multiple Myeloma)
- Julia Zakhaleva, MD (Colorectal Cancer Surgery)
- Osama Zaytoun, MD (Urologic Cancer Surgery)
- Michael Zeidman, MD (Breast Cancer Surgery)