The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders: My Annual Visit
At the end of each January each year, I visit The Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, in their Germantown, Maryland office, to see Dr. Ralph V. Boccia for my annual checkup. He is the physician I recommend if you or a family member are challenged by cancer or a blood disorder. Please click on the link to visit their website.
The good news at my recent visit was that my blood tests were the best that they had been in the years since my hairy cell leukemia has been in remission.
Ralph V. Boccia, MD, FACP
Dr. Boccia is a founder and the Medical Director of the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders. He is also Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University, consulting Medical Director of the International Oncology Network (ION) Clinical Research Program, and chairman of ION’s Medical Advisory Panel. Every year since 1992 both Washingtonian Magazine and Washington D.C. Consumers' Checkbook have listed him among the region's best physicians.
Dr. Boccia earned a medical degree at the University of Minnesota and completed training in internal medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)–affiliated hospitals. He completed hematology, oncology, and bone marrow transplant fellowships at the combined UCLA-Veterans Administration Program and The National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. He is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Hematology, and the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. From his vast experience in research, Dr Boccia has published numerous articles in the journals Annals of Internal Medicine, Blood, Cancer, Cancer Research, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Oncology, and The Lancet.
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