• Tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, including those in the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver and small intestine.
• Skin cancers and melanomas.
• Lung cancer, supported by the Thoracic Surgery Division and the Eliana Center for the Treatment and Healing of Thoracic Cancer.
• Soft tissue tumors and sarcomas.
• Breast cancer, in collaboration with the Breast Cancery Surgery Division.

Minimally Invasive Procedures
Along with traditional, open operations, the section’s surgeons perform many therapeutic and diagnostic procedures using minimally invasive techniques. Minimally invasive surgery provides patients with the advantages of less pain, shorter recovery time and faster return to normal activities.

Multidisciplinary Approach and Interdisciplinary Support
Because of the nature of cancer and the collegial environment of Beth Israel Medical Center, the Surgical Oncology Division works closely with medical and radiation oncologists, imaging specialists, pathologists, and the support team of the Continuum Cancer Centers of New York. (nursing, social workers, mental health specialists, among others). A coordinated, multidisciplinary disease management approach allows every patient to achieve the best possible outcome.

This spirit of collaboration also facilitates highly specialized procedures. For instance, the division’s surgeons have the ability to perform intra-operative radiation therapy. Radiation therapy is added during surgery to deliver radiation directly to the tumor or the bed of the tumor while minimizing damage to non-diseases surrounding tissue.

Collaboration is also in play diagnostically, such as during sentinel lymph node mapping. Using expertise in surgery, nuclear medicine and general imaging, a lymph node that is at high risk of metastatic disease can be identified. Sentinel lymph node mapping is especially useful in treating breast, colon cancers and melanoma.

The division actively participates in multiple clinical trials that allow for a host of new and innovative treatments to be offered at Beth Israel Medical Center.

Division Surgeons

• Susan K. Boolbol, MD (Breast Surgery)
• Warren E. Enker, MD (Colorectal Surgery)
• Martin S. Karpeh, Jr., MD (Chairman of Surgery, Surgical Oncology)
• Laurie Kirstein, MD (Breast Surgery)
• Joseph Martz, MD (Colorectal Surgery)
• Michael Osborne, MD (Breast Surgery)
• Antonio I. Picon, MD (Surgical Oncology)
• Angelo T. Reyes, MD (Thoracic Surgery)

To make an appointment with one of our surgeons, please complete the appointment scheduling form. A staff member will contact you within 48 hours to schedule an appointment.