Dr. Adam Boruchov completed his internship and residency training at New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York. He then served as a Fellow in Hematology and Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York.
Dr. Boruchov's clinical interests include leukemia, lymphoma, bone marrow disorders and all hematologic malignancies.
Fellowship: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2004)
Residency: New York Presbyterian Hospital (2000)
MD: State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn (1997)
American Board Of Internal Medicine
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Leukemia is a cancer of blood cells. And blood cells travel throughout the body. Therefore leukemia is never managed with surgery, which is a treatment for a localized disease, or a disease that is in...
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Patients being treated for leukemia often require frequent visits to the cancer center, either for their therapies or to check their blood counts or to manage the toxicities of therapy. Even without treatments, often leukemia...
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Sometimes for a variety of reasons, leukemia may not be treated, but rather we treat the symptoms of the disease. For example, if the patient is feeling severely tired because of anemia, we can transfuse...
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Certain types of leukemias can be cured with aggressive therapies. This is true for select patients with acute leukemias that are treated with aggressive chemotherapy regiments, and sometimes allogeneic STEM cell transplant. That is the...
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As leukemia cells replace the normal blood in bone marrow cells, patients ultimately develop low blood counts that can lead to specific symptoms. For example, low red blood cells or anemia can cause fatigue or...
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Like most cancers, leukemia cannot be seen on imaging studies, such as CAT scans or PET scans. Depending on the type of leukemia and the type of treatment utilized, leukemia is monitored by repeat bone...
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There are several different types of leukemia medications, depending on the type of leukemia and how aggressive a patient is willing to be treated. Cytotoxic or cell killing chemotherapy is the most aggressive treatment that...
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Leukemia is first suspected based on abnormal blood tests, including either very high or very low blood counts. Once the level of suspicion is high, leukemia is usually diagnosed by bone marrow biopsy. This is...
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The different types of cells that make up our blood include white blood cells that fight infection, red blood cells that carry food and oxygen to tissues throughout the body, and platelets that form blood...
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Patients often ask, what is leukemia? Leukemia is a cancer of blood or bone marrow cells. Leukemia usually starts in the bone marrow, which is the factory for blood cells. Leukemia cells continue to grow...
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