 For Appointments
617-724-4800
Fax
617-724-3895
Office Address
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Division of Surgical Oncology
55 Fruit Street, YAW 7
Boston, MA 02114
Clinical Interests
Breast Cancer and Breast MRI as a Preoperative Tool for Breast Cancer Surgery
Education
MD Degree: Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY, 1996
Postdoctoral Training
Residency: General Surgery, The New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College, NY
NIH Research Fellow in Surgery, Weill Medical College of Cornell, NY
Fellowship, Breast Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY
Board Certification
Surgery, 2004
Academic Appointments
Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School
My Publications
Link to PubMed Database
Selected Publications
Specht MC, Kattan MW, Gonen M, Fey J, Van Zee KJ. Predicting nonsentinel node status after positive sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer: Clinician versus nomogram. Ann Surg Oncol. 12: 654-9, 2005.
Specht MC, Fey J, Borgen P, Cody H. Is the clinically positive axilla in breast cancer really a contraindication to sentinel lymph node biopsy. J Am Coll of Surg. Jan 2005: 200; 10 - 14.
Jones JL, Zabicki K, Christian RL, Gadd MA, Hughes KS, Lesnikoski BA, Rhei E, Specht MC, Dominguez FJ, Smith BL. A comparison of sentinel node biopsy before and after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: timing is important. An J Surg 2005 190: 517-520.
Dominguez FJ, Jones JL, Zabicki K, Smith BL, Gadd MA, Specht M, Kopans DB, Moore RH, Michaelson JS, Hughes KS. Prevalence of hereditary breast/ovarian carcinoma risk in women with a personal history of breast or ovarian carcinoma in a mammography population Cancer 2005 104: 1849-53.
Specht MC, Kattan MW, Gonen M, Fey J, Van Zee k. Predicting nonsentinel node status after positive sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer: clinicians versus nomogram. Ann Surg Onclo 2005 12: 654-9.
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