Shicha Kumar, MD

As a fellowship-trained breast surgeon my goal is to help patients understand their cancer care options and choose a path that fits them best. After completing my training at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, I established a busy practice at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, where I helped build and lead the breast program, acting as its Clinical Chief and directed their breast surgery training program. I am excited be a part of a comprehensive and cutting-edge team. I believe the management of breast cancer should be individualized and personalized and needs the expertise of a multidisciplinary team including medical, surgical and radiation oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, genetics, nursing, social workers and many others, who specifically focus on this disease. Here, the team-based approach is emphasized as is patient centered care, providing patients with the highest quality and most advanced treatment options in a compassionate environment. In addition to taking care of my patients, I also engage in clinical research, which is necessary to advance our knowledge of this disease. I have worked on projects involving DCIS, bilateral breast cancer, novel ways to localize cancer, breast cancer in men, and certain types of rare breast cancers. I have interests in understanding the challenges young women with breast cancer face, as well as those who do not have breast cancer, but are at high risk for developing it, such as BRCA gene mutation carriers.

Clinical Interests:

Disease of the Breast, Breast Cancer, Breast Surgery, Special Clinical Interest, Disease of the Breast, Breast Cancer, Breast Surgery, breast conservation; oncoplastic techniques; nipple-sparing mastectomy; ductal carcinoma-in-situ (DCIS); breast cancer in men; and clinical trials.