Cancer experts at Mount Sinai Queens diagnose and treat a wide range of cancers and blood disorders. As part of the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center, we take a multidisciplinary approach to cancer care. Our medical and surgical team collaborates to provide timely, comprehensive, high-quality cancer care for many forms of cancer and blood disorders. Our doctors present complex cases to the Mount Sinai Health System multidisciplinary tumor board conference to develop an integrated treatment approach. We provide an optimal treatment plan for each patient to ensure the best possible outcome, while remaining focused on treating the entire person, not just the illness.

Patients First

At Mount Sinai Queens, our doctors, nurses and other advanced practitioners combine compassionate care with outstanding clinical skills. We understand how overwhelming a diagnosis of cancer can be for our patients and their families. Our medical team works closely with you to address your concerns, reassure you and your family, and treat you with dignity and respect. Above all, we put you, our patients, first.

Radiology

Mount Sinai Queens has experienced radiologists who perform ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET) scans to diagnose and accurately stage each cancer. Our interventional radiology team uses image-guided biopsies to obtain tissue from challenging locations. They also perform palliative treatments on patients who cannot undergo surgery.

Surgery

Our skilled surgeons perform robotic, open, and minimally invasive surgery to remove benign and malignant tumors, and they provide outstanding perioperative care—before, during, and after surgery—in our state-of-the-art operating room suites. Many of our surgeons have advanced fellowship training, and they work closely with colleagues across the Mount Sinai Health System to deliver optimal surgical care.

Medical Oncologists

Medical oncologists and hematologists use the latest systemic therapies to treat cancer at the Mount Sinai Queens Infusion Center, where we administer treatment in our comfortable outpatient facility conveniently located next to the main hospital. We also provide a wide range of transfusion services and administer intravenous medications for benign rheumatologic disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Radiation Oncology

Radiation oncologists at Mount Sinai use the latest techniques to treat cancer. Patients receive the most up-to-date treatments delivered with compassion by experts in the field. This is done in close collaboration with surgeons, medical oncologists and other specialists and support staff involved in caring for the patient.

Palliative Care

We have an experienced inpatient palliative care team affiliated with The Mount Sinai Hospital's renowned Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, We help patients with advanced, incurable cancer to transition to hospice services that optimize quality of life.

Clinical Services

At Mount Sinai Queens, you have access to the skilled, experienced cancer specialists of the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center which is at the forefront of cancer research and patient care. We treat many forms of cancer, and we offer the following clinical services:

Diagnosing cancer: Our physicians use the latest screening and diagnostic testing to locate and treat cancer. These include computed tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET) scans, and image-guided tissue biopsy to evaluate cancerous tumors in the head and neck, chest, abdomen, pelvis, and extremities.

Treating cancer: Our multidisciplinary care teams provide comprehensive and coordinated cancer care for maximum effectiveness with minimal side effects. Our experienced surgeons employ the latest techniques in robotic, minimally invasive laparoscopic and open surgery. The Mount Sinai Queens Infusion Center provides the latest systemic infusion therapies. We use treatment protocols developed at the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center, and offer clinical trials to eligible patients. In addition, Radiation Oncology services at Mount Sinai West are available to Queens patients, based on assessment by a radiation oncologist at Queens.

Treating blood disorders: Our experienced oncologists and hematologists treat a wide range of blood disorders using the latest treatment protocols that are consistent across the Mount Sinai Health System. Specialists administer infusions, including blood products and intravenous (IV) fluid hydration, at the Mount Sinai Queens Infusion Center, located across the street from the main hospital.