Dr. Magdy Shaaban
Hematology and Oncology
Baldwin, NY
43 years experience male
Locations
Office
Baldwin, NY
My office hours
Thursday: 9:00am - 4:00pm
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Insurances accepted
Aetna
Affinity Health Plan
American Fidelity Corp
AmeriChoice Health Services, Inc
Cigna
About
Bio
Dr Shaaban, 24 years of practice Hematology/ oncology.
SpecialtiesDoctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Hematology and Oncology
Licenses
United States: New York
Languages spoken
Arabic, English
Doctor Q&A
77 Answers
35 Agrees
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A member asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Post extraction: could be infection. may need antibiotic.check with your dentist
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A 34-year-old male asked:
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Aggressive diuresis: yes dehydrated. fluid retention in the lung could be detected if the patient is not able to lie flat on the bed because of shortness of breath. or fee... Read More
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A female asked:
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Side effects: any medication has side effects, the benefit of using the medication over weigh the side effects ..dont let the list of the side effect deter you fro... Read More
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A female asked:
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5FU (fluorouracil): small dose of 5FU (fluorouracil) .I doubt that will have an effect. and usually if the fertilized ova( zygot) is not healthy it usually will be expel... Read More
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A 38-year-old male asked:
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Not always: It is not necessary that cancer may show in the form of blood tests that off normal value. Also sometimes the abnormal values of the blood tests could... Read More
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A 66-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Lymph node BX: we need the biopsy to tell the nature of the lymph node. particularly if it is more than 1 cm in diameter.less than 1cm is usually benign.CT/PET coul... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
RDW high: If RDW is high this means the Range of Dimension Width is high, indicating the Red cell corpuscles are not the same sizes, this could be due to the Bo... Read More
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A 67-year-old female asked:
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Treatment of mets: the ablation of these spots mainly helps improve the symptoms they cause .sometimes being small make it difficult to ablate..multiple spots also tell ... Read More
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A 31-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
HCV: yes may cause lymphocytosis or lymphopenia or may not cause any changes on CBC
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A 44-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Doctor/patient: yes doctors care about their patient. but sometimes there is lack of training about communication with the patient . and I think this issue has gained... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
US: because it has the same echogenicity of the surrounding tissue.that means it is the same structure of the surrounding tissue
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A 17-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Anemia: very mild. 11.7 is close to normal. doubt that your symptoms from this mild anemia. In young female like you the cause usually blood loss from your p... Read More
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A female asked:
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Bleeding: bleeding from nose and rectum . need to have complete check up. check bleeding tendencies. check platelet count and coagulation..I need to know how is... Read More
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A 52-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Drug reaction: Refractory anemia has no impact on your question. the medications you mention usually used for migraine..any medications in the world have side effec... Read More
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A 33-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Is it Cancer: It does not sound like inflammatory cancer particularly, it improves with some powder. I suggest you see dermatology
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A 32-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Fungus infection: fungus infection may be due to immune defeciency. common causes of immune deficiency are Diabetes, kidney failure, viral infection, prolonged use of a... Read More
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A 67-year-old male asked:
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HEMICOLECTOMY: SHORT ANSWER. NO..USUALLY THEY REMOVE PART OF THE COLON AND RECONNECT IT
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Enlarged LN in testi: check with your Doctor to see if it is significant
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
ECCHYMOSIS: may be if you rub the skin hard that causes breaking of blood vessel
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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Lupus/cancer: some signs of lupus, RASH, HAIR LOSS, JOINT PAIN, ANEMIA ,AND CANCER SIGNS DEPEND ON WHICH PART OF THE BODY has the cancer.
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A 38-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Yes: Increased blood cell count is inaccurate description...the blood count may be white, red counts or platelet count. Which one of the three do you have ... Read More
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A 49-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
MM and BMT: usually BMT as treatment of MM reserved for young and fit patients. Mortality from BMT increases with age and comorbidity
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A 28-year-old female asked:
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Multiple drugs: I use these combinations with chemotherapy in cancer patient and well tolerated with most of the patient . Zofran (ondansetron) usually every 8 hours ... Read More
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A female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Iron deficiency: no it is not emergency. in young female the most common cause is chronic blood loss from menses. or multi para. and these days we see many patient due... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
High folate (folic acid): folate (folic acid) level in the serum depends on the recent status of folate (folic acid) intake. to be more accurate you need to check RBC folate (... Read More
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A 27-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Supplement: no medical studies.the people who sell these products will provide these info.
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A 42-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Antiplatelet: check with your cardiologist. antiplatelet aggregation will not be the cause
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A 53-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Hematuria: this could be contamination from vaginitis. lack of estrogen in 53 y/o female causes this vaginitis ..you should see a urologist who will obtain a sam... Read More
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A 16-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Bleeding: if platelet count is low, the answer will be YES
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Lump: lump under the skin. could be lipoma, neurofibroma cyst all in 18 years old usually nothing to worry about
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Macrocyte/hypochromi: macrocytes. causes. B12/folate deficiency. or liver disease or myelodysplastic syndrome hypothyroidism,and increased number of reticulocytes as in hem... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
MPV: Mean Platelet Volume.
this tells us the average size of the platelet. In cases of Low platelet count in ITP the MPV is usually high . we blieve that M... Read More
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Hair loss: many causes for hair loss, iron deficiency is one of them.as for the other symptoms you need medical evaluation
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Ovarian cyst: how large is the cyst. there are normal cysts in the ovaries of young female like you due to non ovulation. large cysts should be monitored by Gyn/son... Read More
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A female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Hysterectomy: one of the post surgical sequelae, is peritoneal adhesions, which may give the descries symptoms , these usually resolve by time.
check with your doc... Read More
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A 39-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
6 NO's: No sugar. No rice. No corn. No potatoes No flour, and No alcohol
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A 67-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Low ferritin: depends on your lab reference. but looks like it is on the low side. this means your iron stores are depleted due to chronic blood loss (menses/or bl... Read More
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A 32-year-old female asked:
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Tumor marker: tumor markers like ca19-9 should not be used for diagnosis..they only good for follow up after diagnosis was made by tissue biopsy.use of tumor marker... Read More
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A 58-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Pain meds: all drugs have safety profile and side effects, and Doctor use which drug that will help the patient with least side effects .check with your doctor
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A 66-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Red equal white: Alcohol consumption whether in red or white wine while on medications may interfere with the effect of the medication or increase its side effects or... Read More
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A 33-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Serious low HGB: depends on her underlying heart condition and also depend on the rapidity of the drop of hemoglobin. Heart can tolerate gradual drop of hemoglobin to ... Read More
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Pain back: could be muscle or ligament pain try to lie on the right side .if continue call your OB/Gyn
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A 19-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Rare complications: these are rare complications ..most of the patients will recover uneventfully
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Leg cramps: this is due to the preparation drinks. this could cause electrolyte imbalance. drink more juice to replace what ever mineral you lost during the prepa... Read More
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A 32-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Treatment of freckle: no effective treatment..only cover it with cosmetics
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Half life of platele: the half life time ( t/2) is the number of days that needed to reduce the platelet count to half its number.
the platelet T/2 is 7-10 days .
in othe... Read More
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A 49-year-old member asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Lip edema: this is angioneurotic edema..allergic reaction to some medication or food. it will get better at the end of the day, to prevent this from happening ag... Read More
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A 32-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Vitex: it is herbal supplement .they say to balance the hormones, pituitary and help with fertility.there is no studies about vitex and Aspirin.the shorT ans... Read More
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A 24-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Stage IV: there is no cure at this stage. but there are many treatments and the goal is palliative( meaning improve the quality of life) or modest increase in ... Read More
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A 47-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 43 years experience
Breast ca stage IV: need more information. where the metastases are. only bone metastases do better than soft tissue metastases. what is the ER an PR , what is the Her2 s... Read More
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Shaaban is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Shaaban is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Thank you for your answer. After I raised the issue (possible cancer diagnosis that was not followed up on) I was "fired" as a patient by the practice
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This was very helpful. Thanks! i understand that but i do not have a regular cycle, and it is normally light when it comes, do that still relate to me
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This was very helpful. Thanks! if it dont go away by next wk i'll mention it to my doctor when i see him to check my cholesterol
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
University of Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
Graduated 1980MD
Residency
WOODHULL MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CENTER
Awards
Top Oncologist and Hematologist, First Place, National - Spring
2015
Top Oncologist and Hematologist, First Place, National - Winter
2015
Top Oncologist and Hematologist , First Place, National - Spring
2016
Affiliations
South Nassau Communities Hospital
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