60 THE QUEENS COURIER • HEALTH • JUNE 7, 2018 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM
A few weeks ago New York Cancer & Blood Services opened
its doors in Bayside. A tour showed me the most modern
facility with a comfortable tone.
I interviewed Dr. Trianta Fillos to find out more about this
brand new facility and its team of board certified specialists.
“It is so important to bring state of the art cancer care close to
home”, he stated “patients, no longer have to travel to Manhattan
when they can receive the same world class care right
here in their neighborhood. I have been treating patients from
Manhasset, Jackson Heights and Flushing for the past eight
years, I have great ties in Queens”. Born in Jackson Heights
and currently living in Whitestone has brought Dr. Fillos to
this brand new facility in Bayside.
His rotation in hematology in his third year of medical school
sparked his curiosity and perspective to investigate further.
Working with profiles, DNA Sequencing and identifying
markers began in the laboratory. By looking at cell cycles in
yeast, and how to block growth propelled him to graduate
with a degree in medical hematology and oncology, and so
began his career. “It starts at the bench and gets to the bedside”,
he stated. “Funding is critical.”
“Outpatient oncology is an expanding field, he stated”, with
the help of a support team after diagnosis is a key factor in the
treatment. Treatment approaches and technologies are constantly
changing, which can provide patients with an array of
medications, therapies and tools to attack the disease. Even if
two patients have the same cancer, they are given an individual
program to meet their individual needs. Each patient has
a Nurse, a social worker and the doctors to count on”.
“Queens is such a diverse borough he said, we needed to find
a way to speak in everyone’s language and make the patients
comfortable, we found a Language Bank which is just a
phone call away and each language is translated into that
patient’s language”.
He spoke about Immunotherapy. Some cancers invade the
immune system. New drugs can now treat malignant, metastatic
melanomas to provide hope, a different class of medications
prolonging life, meaningful long term life.
This brilliant, soft spoken doctor is in practice in Bayside
from 9 to 5 everyday, curing cancer and giving hope where
there once was none.
Please contact New York Cancer & Blood Services Bayside
to receive expert care, treating every stage everyday.
Bayside Office
45-64 Francis Lewis Blvd Suite 202, Bayside, NY 11361
Phone: 631-751-3000 / 1-855-5-CURE-CA
Fax: 844-758-4440
www.NYcancer.com
Dr. Triantafillos Fillos
M.D., FACP, MS
Hospitals:
Northwell Long Island Jewish Medical Center,
North Shore University Hospital,
New York Presbyterian-Queens
St. Francis Hospital,
Flushing Hospital Medical Center
John T Mather Memorial Hospital,
St. Catherine Of Siena Medical Center,
University Hospital at Stony Brook, St. Charles Hospital,
FACP State University of New York at Stony Brook
Residency State University of New York at Stony Brook
Medical School St. George's University School of Medicine
COLLEGE Boston College
/www.NYcancer.com
