Tayyaba Bashir, MD, has joined the medical oncology department as attending physician. She is board eligible in hematology and medical oncology and board certified in internal medicine. She treats patients through the breast and intestinal cancer programs at SVCCC. Dr. Bashir also advises patients on chemoprevention strategies that include genetic counseling and testing.

Dr. Bashir most recently served as a chief fellow in hematology and oncology at North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, NY. She pursued her internship and residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY.

She graduated medical school from State University of New York at Downstate, Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Bashir is an alumna of Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY. Her background includes being a teaching assistant in mathematics and chemistry at Barnard College and research internships for the New York City Department of Health and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY.

Dr. Bashir is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and a member of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). She speaks Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, and Spanish.

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St. Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center (SVCCC), a center of excellence in hematology oncology, adds Azra Raza, MD, as attending physician in Medical Oncology. Dr. Raza is an internationally recognized specialist in myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The addition of Dr. Raza to its staff is part of an initiative to build SVCCC as a cancer center with subspecialty oncology programs.

Dr. Raza will direct the study and treatment of MDS, which refers to a group of conditions caused by abnormal blood-forming cells of the bone marrow. Considered a relatively rare cancer, 15,000-20,000 new cases are diagnosed annually in the United States. In about 3 out of 10 cases, the MDS will become AML.

Dr. Raza treats 500 to 600 AML and MDS patients from around the United States who travel to receive cutting edge individualized therapies based on molecular and genetic studies of their bone marrows. The MDS program at SVCCC will be unique, in that Dr. Raza has built a national referral base for MDS treatment and research with a large enough population for patients to participate in meaningful clinical trials.

Most recently Dr. Raza was chief, Hematology Oncology and professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts, and UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worchester, MA. Prior to that appointment, she established the most clinically active and well-funded basic research programs in the United States at Rush Cancer Institute, Chicago, IL, for studying MDS and the leukemias arising from them.

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Jed A. Katzel, MD, hematology and oncology fellow at SVCCC, St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan, and New York Medical College, recently had an article published in the American Cancer Society’s A Journal For Clinicians, titled: Multiple Myeloma: Charging Toward a Bright Future. David H. Vesole, MD, PhD, FACP, attending physician in SVCCC’s Myeloma and Transplant program collaborated in writing the article, joined by Parameswaran Hari, assistant professor of medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. For the abstract and PDF of the article>>

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St. Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center is opening its doors for free mammogram screenings for eligible women on National Mammography Day, October 19th, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, at 325 West 15th Street, between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, Manhattan.

Women 40 and over, or women over 35, with a history of breast cancer in their families, are invited to participate in the one-day mammogram screening event. To be eligible, mammograms will be provided based on a provider’s clinical assessment, and a woman cannot have had a mammogram in the last 12 months.

In conjunction with offering free mammograms, women of all ages are encouraged to attend free activities planned in the afternoon:

3:30-4:40 PM Educational Seminar, Kick Cancer Off the Planet with Early Detection and Prevention, to learn about reducing your risk and how to detect breast cancer early.

5:30-6:30 PM Book Readings with Geralyn Lucas, Emmy® nominated author of the memoir Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, and Marisa Acocella Marchetto, author of Cancer Vixen, with Q&A.

The event is sponsored by The Cancer Vixen Fund at St. Vincent’s Comprehensive Cancer Center.

To schedule a mammogram appointment, call 212-604-6009. Walk-ins are also welcome, however, availability is limited. No pre-registration is required to attend the seminar and/or book reading.

Download a PDF Color Flyer that can be redistributed and also printed out as a bulletin board poster that can be posted in offices and residential buildings.

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