Oncologist Recommendations NYC

Hope2live

I am in New York and frightened as I try to find a new oncologist. I have been surviving two years. I was diagnosed from the get go with Metastatic Breast Cancer. My boyfriend, who I was living with, dumped me. I underwent chemo and radiation, and was No Evidence of Active Disease for 1.5 years. Cancer returned, my oncologist left and I was assigned a new doctor who gave me taxol after I'd gotten an ulcer from it and my nurses recommended I find a new doctor (also I switched to Abraxane, which was a life saver and I highly recommend.) It is scary to be on chemo for the rest of my life, which is what my current oncologist said. She also said she has no patients who have lived over a decade, which didn't give me much hope. But I have now met several women who have lived 17 years, 15, years, and 8 years plus, so please do not give up hope!

Anyway, I'd like to find a new doctor.

I heard great things about Anne Moore at Cornell, but she doesn't take health insurance, and Chow Dang and Tiffany Traina at MSK (Sloan kettering) and Tina Train at MSK- Anyone else seen them? Any other oncologists at Sloan, ideally, or at NYU, Presbyterian, Cornell, Columbia you like specifically:

- What about them specifically, makes you trust their expertise?

- Availability, do they offer their email or phone, do they respond?

- Are their nurses and administrative staff organized and respond via portal and phone within three days?

- Are they compassionate? How did they show this?

Heard from friends with Mets who have been misdiagnosed by Komal Johovari, who was at NYU, and now Sloan, same with Neil Singer at Sloan, another person in my group said Maura Dickler was patronizing and called Shanu Modi robotic and unavailable. It is hard to know since there isn't a Yelp for oncologists and Mets requires a far more intimate relationship with your doctor.

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Dear Hope2live,

Welcome to the community. We are sorry for your diagnosis but grateful that you reached out to our members. You may want to check out this link to our main site's information On Deciding Where to Go for a Second Opinion. You can also use the search tab to our left and type in the words New York to find some local members. You also may want to consider reposting this or letting us move this post to the Stage 4 Forum. You may get some more attention there. Let us know how we can help. The Mods

Hope2live

Huge thanks. Is there anyway you can repost in that Forum? If not, no worries, but exhausted, emotional basket case at the moment.