Anya M. Litvak, MD, joined The Cancer Center at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in 2015. Dr. Litvak is a board-certified medical oncologist whose clinical practice is dedicated to the care of patients with breast cancer. She trained at the nation’s top institutions including Baylor College of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. Dr. Litvak is committed to bringing exceptional care to women fighting breast cancer.
Dr. Litvak partners with a multidisciplinary team of devoted specialists including nurse navigators, social workers, breast surgeons, breast radiologists, oncology nurses, radiation oncologists, dieticians, physical therapists, lymphedema specialists, geneticists and integrative medicine physicians. As a team, they have one of the largest breast cancer practice in the country.
Dr. Litvak believes in a shared decision making approach and takes pride in educating and empowering her patients to jointly make decisions regarding management plans. Her goal is to optimize chance of cure and prolong survival while respecting and honoring one’s individual needs and wishes.
As a principle investigator of a number of breast cancer trials at the cancer center, Dr. Litvak delivers personalized, state of the art breast cancer care to her patients. She works with academic centers throughout the country to deliver novel, targeted therapies to women with breast cancer. In 2020, Dr. Litvak was selected to be part of the ASCO biomarker committee, a group of leading breast oncologists, who make recommendations on the appropriate use of breast tumor biomarker assays to guide decisions on adjuvant systemic therapy for early stage invasive breast cancer
Visit our Clinical Trials page for a full list of breast cancer clinical trials.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 2015
Publications
Title:
Selective induction of cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in human prostate cancer cells through adenoviral transfer of the melanoma differentiation associated-7/inteukin-24 gene
Authors:
Saito Y, Miyahara R, Gopalan B, Litvak A, Inoue S, Shanker M, Branch C, Mhashilkar A, Roth J, Chada S, Ramesh R
Publisher:
Cancer Gene Ther
Date:
March 2005
Issue:
12 (3):238-47
Description:
PMID:15578066
Title:
Activation of the Fas-FasL Signaling Pathway by MDA-7/IL-24 Kills Human Ovarian Cancer Cells
Authors:
Gopalan B, Litvak A, Sharma S, Mhashilkar A, Chada S, Ramesh R
Publisher:
Cancer Research
Date:
April 2005
Issue:
65 (8): 3017-3024
Description:
PMID: 15833826
Title:
Use of Chemotherapy in the Resection of Liver Metastases of Colorectal Cancer
Authors:
Litvak A, Saltz L
Publisher:
Curr Colorectal Cancer Report
Date:
June 2013
Issue:
9(2):178-184
Title:
False-positive elevations of carcinoembryonic antigen in patients with a history of resected colorectal cancer
Authors:
Litvak A, Cercek A, Segal N, Reidy-Lagunes D, Stadler ZK, Yaeger RD, Kemeny NE, Weiser MR, Pessin MS, Saltz L
Publisher:
J Natl Compr Canc Netw.
Date:
2014 June
Issue:
12(6):907-13
Description:
PMID: 24925201
Title:
Phase II Study of the GI-4000 KRAS Vaccine After Curative Therapy in Patients With Stage I-III Lung Adenocarcinoma Harboring a KRAS G12C, G12D, or G12V Mutation
Authors:
Chaft JE, Litvak A, Arcila ME, Patel P, D'Angelo SP, Krug LM, Rusch V, Mattson A, Coeshott C, Park B, Apelian DM, Kris MG, Azzoli CG
Publisher:
Clin Lung Cancer
Date:
June 2014
Issue:
21
Description:
PMID:25044103
Title:
Successful Perioperative Use of Prothrombin Complex Concentrate in the Treatment of Acquired Factor X Deficiency in the Setting of Systemic Light-Chain (AL) Amyloidosis
Authors:
Litvak A, Kumar A, Wong R, Smith L, Hassoun H, Soff G
Publisher:
Am J Hematol
Date:
2014 Jul
Issue:
24
Description:
PMID: 25060940
Title:
Neuroendocrine Tumors in Cancer Consult: Expertise for Clinical Practice
Authors:
Litvak, A. and Saltz, L.
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK
Date:
2014
Issue:
eds S. A. Abutalib and M. Markman
Title:
Cervical Cancer, Endometrial Cancer, Germ Cell Tumors in Pocket Oncology
Rekhtman N, Desmeules P, Litvak AM, Pietanza MC, Santos-Zabala ML, Ni A, Montecalvo J, Chang JC, Beras A, Preeshagul IR, Sabari JK, Rudin CM, Ladanyi M, Klimstra DS, Travis WD, Lai WC.
Publisher:
Mod Pathol.
Date:
2019 Mar
Description:
PMID: 30923345
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