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Care Philosophy: The relationships that I develop with patients and their families are unlike those in almost any other subspecialty and are special and treasured. I have long admired the amazing strength that cancer patients can summon, and I'm honored to be with

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Care Philosophy: Qun Dai, MD, PhD is a medical oncologist and hematologist at Staten Island University Hospital. She specializes in treating breast cancer and provides personalized care to ensure the best outcomes. She uses clinical assessment, biomarker features and genomic prediction to determine the appropriate treatment for her patients. She also uses molecular assays, such as next generation sequencing and immune markers, to identify additional treatment options. She emphasizes both treatment outcomes and patient quality of life. At Northwell Health, Dr. Dai works with a multidisciplinary team of doctors regularly and collaborates with breast surgeons, radiation oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, and genetic counselors to create individualized treatment plans. Dr. Dai is also devoted to breast cancer prevention. She sees patients at high risk for breast cancer due to family history, atypical hyperplasia, and lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS). She provides recommendations for risk reduction measures. While she focuses on breast cancer, Dr. Dai also provides care for the patients with gynecologic malignancies such as ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, cervical cancer, and other types of solid tumors, as well as malignant and benign hematologic disorders. She is actively involved in clinical cancer research and participates in both institutional and nationwide clinical trials. She has published in peer-reviewed medical journals and is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology. Dr. Dai earned her medical degree from Nanjing Medical College in China and completed her residency in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine/Bronx VA Medical Center. She received fellowship training in hematology and oncology at the Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She also earned a PhD in molecular biology at the New York University School of Medicine. She is now an assistant professor at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Dr. Dai finds helping her patients the most rewarding. I work to establish a good connection with my patients and their families so I can support them as they are going through their treatment process, she says.