SquamousCellCarcinomaofSkin near Bronxville, NY

Biography: Dr. Nancy Mills is a Medical Oncologist and Hematologist. She is noted for her expertise in the treatment of breast cancer and gynecologic malignancies. She received her medical degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine completing both her internship and residency in Internal Medicine, but later on she completed her fellowship in Hematology & Medical Oncology. Dr. Mills is known as a very caring physician who makes enduring personal connections with her patients. She devotes significant personal time to various community endeavors, such as participating in and helping to sponsor the Westchester County American Cancer Society Breast Cancer Walk. In 2000 through 2002, she was named one of the Best Doctors in New York for medical oncology by New York Magazine, and was honored with Physician's Recognition Award in Continuing Medical Education by American Medical Association, 2001-2003.Dr. Mills is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and she is currently practicing at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital Cancer Center located in Bronxville, NY.

Biography: Dr. Raza is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University in New York, NY. She started her research in Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) in 1982 and moved to Rush University, Chicago, Illinois in 1992, where she was the Charles Arthur Weaver Professor in Oncology and Director, Division of Myeloid Diseases. The MDS Program, along with a Tissue Repository containing more than 50,000 samples from MDS and acute leukemia patients was successfully relocated to the University of Massachusetts in 2004 and to Columbia University in 2010. Before moving to New York, Dr. Raza was the Chief of Hematology Oncology and the Gladys Smith Martin Professor of Oncology at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester. She has published the results of her laboratory research and clinical trials in prestigious, peer-reviewed journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Blood, Cancer, Cancer Research, the British Journal of Hematology, Leukemia, and Leukemia Research. Dr. Raza serves on numerous national and international panels as a reviewer, consultant, and advisor and is the recipient of a number of awards.