I have had the worst traumatic experience with this rigid oncologist at MSK. I am being treated for a breast cancer recurrence at MSK and was taking estrogen blockers to lower the risk of a recurrence. They are universally experienced as brutal by most. You need an oncologist who will work with you, has a flexible attitude, is open to your ideas.
Dr. Abuhadra is not open to your ideas, not flexible, very very rigid. Her favorite often used phrase in always shooting down my ideas was "not regulation based."
Dr. Abuhadra will smother you with false charm, even hug you (!), make false claims of "working together." But don't be taken in as she is incredibly, unnecessarily RIGID. Your ideas, researched or not, will be shot down as they don't meet the black and white censor of her attitude. Any ideas I learned of, found in enabling me to tolerate the estrogen blockers, were shot down by this person. Yeah, she talks a good game, but the brutal reality is SHOCKING. Your ideas are subject to her totalitarian desire to please the powers that be, not to care for you. At first I thought, this charming woman can't possibly be so uncaring, rigid. But yes she was, over and over and over.
I have an appointment to see a new oncologist outside of MSK and I have no idea how people can give Abuhadra the tiniest vote of approval. read more