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Dr. Calfa is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and an Associate Director of Community Outreach for the Sylvester Breast Cancer Center in Plantation, where she also chairs the multidisciplinary tumor board.   In addition to being an outstanding and compassionate physician, she has dedicated her career to developing new treatment approaches for women with breast cancer and improving breast cancer survivorship. She […]

While we have been focusing on the incredible doctors at Sylvester during National Cancer Research Month, we also want to honor the outstanding nurses at Sylvester as May is also Nurse Oncology Month! As many of you know, The Pap Corps has a program that provides scholarships that will allow Sylvester’s oncology nurses to further […]

As we continue our focus on cancer researchers, today we introduce you to Dr. Sophia George. Her precision prevention research examines the incidence and prevalence of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome in women from the Caribbean. Ovarian cancer starts in the Fallopian tube epithelia (FTE), so she and her researchers use these FTE cells […]

During National Cancer Research Month, we are very proud to feature the Pap Corps’ Endowed Chair in Leukemia, Dr. Justin Watts.  His mission is to design and develop the next generation of drug therapies and precision medicine techniques that will cure more patients with leukemia with less toxic side effects. His research focuses on innovative […]

May is National Cancer Research Month. Thanks to the doctors at Sylvester, there have been many advances. Today we feature Dr. Eli Avisar, a surgical oncologist who specializes in breast cancer melanoma and sarcoma. Besides his many contributions to cancer research, Dr. Avisar is an expert in lymph nodes assessment in a variety of difficult places […]

The month of May is dedicated to raising awareness about cancer research. Today, we feature Dr. Krishna Komanduri, Director of the Adult Stem Cell Transplant Program at Sylvester. Dr. Komanduri joined Sylvester in 2008 from MD Anderson Cancer Center. Under his leadership, the Adult Stem Cell Transplant Program has grown significantly in recent years, performing […]