A new partnership for Queens residents means they won't have to leave the borough to get quality cancer care. Memorial Sloan Kettering doctors will now be seeing cancer patients and providing treatment to them at Jamaica Hospital. jennbisramtv reports.
"When I see a patient with cancer now, I know exactly what they have ahead of them," said Dr. Sabiha Raoof, a cancer survivor."I read my own mammogram when I did my first mammogram at the age 40 and I diagnosed my breast cancer, which was a very eye-opening experience for me."
"Ever since that, it has been my desire to bring that cancer care to the patients that we serve here," she said. "Patients, understandably, want to get treated close to home, but a lot of the advancements occur in big centers. It takes a while for the transition of what occurs in the big center to get into the community," Memorial Sloan Dr. David Pfister said.
Doctors at both hospitals say it will make it easier for patients to keep up with their treatments and follow-up appointments, and will have less impact on their time away from work, and loved ones who have to travel with them.
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