Dr. David Masiello
Hematology and Oncology
Los Angeles, CA
20 years experience male
Locations
Hematology Oncology Specialists
Los Angeles, CA
My office hours
Thursday: 8:00am - 4:00pm
Show moreHematology Oncology Specialist
Pasadena, CA
About
Bio
I am a practicing physician in Southern California.
I specialize in blood disorders, cancer care and internal medicine.
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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
Internal Medicine
Licenses
United States: California, Massachusetts
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A 29-year-old member asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
See a urologist: This could be orchitis, prostatits, possibly even penile cancer. You should get checked by a urologist. This is not likely to be cystitis (infection... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Dysphagia: Weight loss, and pain with swallowing are some of the early signs of esophageal cancer. Unfortunately by the time symptoms present the cancer is usua... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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No: Generally speaking, pvera dose not imapct a persons long term survival, ie when comparing a group of patients with pv to a group without, survial rate... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Other infections: Check HIV CMV also consider fungal infections if you are in one such area in the country.
If there is an easily assessable lymph node get a core bx, f... Read More
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A 89-year-old member asked:
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None: There is no treatment for lewy body disease.
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Years: The development of mouth cancer due to tobacco related products takes years and multiple exposures.
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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No time frame: We are all exposed to uv rays daily. It can take years to manifest a malignancy as a result of uv exposure.
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A 45-year-old member asked:
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No: Risk for all cancers increase with age. If life expectancy is less than 10 years then colon cancer screening would not be recomended.
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Depends: Right now they are stored, these cells currenttly can be used for an autologus (self) or allogenetic (to some one else) bone marrow transplant.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
No: Size of the breast has no bearing on the risk of breast cancer.
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A 21-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Neutropenia: Typically only overwelming (read ICU level sick) infections lead to neutropenia. The concern would be in the case of an ongoing "fungal issue" that ... Read More
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A 56-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Post menopausal blee: The Number one concern for a woman with postmenopausal bleeding is uterine cancer. While transvaginal US can exclude endomentrial cancer a lind biop... Read More
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A 23-year-old female asked:
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Raynaud's: The best treatment of raynauds is avoidance for the precipitating factors and keeping the hands/feet warm. I fthis is insuficent then the calcium cha... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
YEs: No birth control is 100% effective and the most likley explanation for a missed period in an otherwise healthy female is pregnancy. There are many ov... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Ignore: Keep hydrated water helps prevent fragility of the sickle cell.
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A 17-year-old male asked:
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Chronic Cough: Other causes of chronic cough include: allergies, bronchitis, medicaitons, post nasal drip. You should see your doctor for a complete physical.
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A 17-year-old female asked:
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NO: The accept reasons for tonsilectomy include: recurrent tonsilar infecitons, recurrent throat infecitons, tonsilar obstruction, or severe bad breath.
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A 21-year-old male asked:
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Picture: A picture would help. Stretch marks can have this appearance. Also any areas that have had direct pressure or a period of time (weight lifting) can ... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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Need more info: A low MCV with a raised RDW would point towards iron deficiency. A MCV of 67 is severly depressed and would suggest severe aenmia. Anemia could exp... Read More
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A 17-year-old female asked:
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See A physician: See your physician to obtian some plain raidiographs and physcial evalaution of your writs.
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A 52-year-old female asked:
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Not likely: While MRI and CT scans take pictures in different ways, tumors that are not large enough to be seen on ct will likely not be seen on CT. One area of ... Read More
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A 16-year-old male asked:
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A urologist: Any urologist can perform this procedure. When it comes to your health there is no such thing as a cheap price, but many doctors will offer discounte... Read More
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A female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Pneumonia: You may have a pleural space infeciton or a case of pneumonia. Inflamation in the chest cavity at the base of the diaphram can cause shoulder/arm pai... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Neuropathy: This could be a sign of neuropaty, a problem with the sensory nerves. There are many causes of neuropathy, the most common is diabetes. Appropriate ... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Little: This appears to be a very low risk situation. If the baby was to get repeated scans that would increase the risk.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Yes: There is iodine in most foodstuffs. To check, consult that nutritional information on the package. The FDA requires that all this information be pre... Read More
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Nothing: There is no therapy required for a "lung nodule" depending upon its appearance a biopsy may be required vs a repeate ct scan in 3-6 months.
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A 24-year-old member asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
A blood disorder: Sorry to hear that. Your sister has been diagnosed with a type of cancer that affects the white blood cells. It is very curable with proper treatmen... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Depends: It is no longer needed when it will no longer be beneficial. If you have a 45yr old woman with metastatic lung cancer it would no longer be recommend... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
No: No, hpv is not a garantee of cancer, only one of many risk factors. Your risk will increase for genital cancers as well a head and neck cancer if you... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Yes: There are several types of breast cancer, and some are worse than others, for instance a sarcomotoid breast cancer is very aggressive nd resistant to ... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Depends: It would depend on location of the tumor, type of tumor and grade of tumor. A high grade tumor next to the motor cortex will cause symptoms quickly, ... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Yes: Diabetes affects the kidneys. The kidneys produce a hormone erytropoetin which stimulates the bone marrow to produce red cells. As kidney function d... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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No: There are no tests that have been shown to reliably screen for ovarian cancer. Some people advocate for pelvic us and tumor marker analysis but these... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Not necessarily.: Smoking and lung cancer is not a sure think, it is a risk. A better statement would be, if one smokes, the risk of getting lung cancer increases.
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Lymphoma, cancer of the white blood cells, dose cause the lymph glands to enlarge, but there are also many other things which can lead to enlarged lym... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Anything is possible, but what you describe is unlikely.
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Chemotherapy: All chemotherapy or treatment eventually leads to apoptosis or cell death.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Ribavirin side effec: Fatigue, nausea, hair loss, anemia, are common adverse events form ribavirin. The other agents that this is given with also add additional adverse ev... Read More
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A 29-year-old male asked:
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Hair loss: Hair loss can ocurr for multile reasons including horonal imbalances (thyroid, testosterone, estrogen), auto immune, strees and vitamin deficiencies. ... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
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No: No, that the pain has not progressed over a period of 8 years would suggest that whateverr is causing it is benign. Since it is only left sided I wou... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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See Your Gyn: This probably represents retained blood form the last menstrual period. The brown color is what can be seen when blood is retained within the uterus.... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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See a Doctor: A leaking sore ear should be evaluated by a physcian to look for an infeciton.
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A 42-year-old female asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Probably not: This is unlikley to be malignancy but could be a stomach ulcer. An ulcer can lead to bleeding which can cuase dark stools, lead to anemia, headaches ... Read More
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A 17-year-old male asked:
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Hematology and Oncology 20 years experience
Anxiety: This could be anxiety. It would be best to talk these feeling over with your doctor to obtain a proper diagnosis and treatment plan
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A 28-year-old female asked:
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Infection: A elevated white blood count with a slighlty elevated ESR would suggest infection/inflamation. Imature granulocytes can be seen during an inflamatory... Read More
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A 43-year-old female asked:
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Not an issue: The rdw, mch and mchc are only helpful in evaluating patients with anemia. ron would be unexpected to alter these numbers.
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A 25-year-old female asked:
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See a doctor: The ymptoms are too vague to be sure what is causing it. This type of pelivc pain can arise from multiple places iwthin the pelvis. It would be best... Read More
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A 42-year-old female asked:
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Colonoscopy: If they did not see any issue on a sigmoidoscopy, the next step would likely be a full colonoscopy
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A 20-year-old male asked:
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No: tramadoll has no SSRI in it. Tramadol (ultram) is an opiate agonist, similar to opiates, for the treatment of pain. The issue with tramadol and SS... Read More
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Jun 22, 2014
Dr. Masiello is a very caring and compassionate physician with expert knowledge in his field.
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Sep 7, 2014
Dr Masiello is very knowledgeable. I kinda threw a lot at him as I have several conditions. However, he was able to keep me from worrying and gave some info I could continue trying. I was comforte...Read More
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Dec 26, 2015
You have been great. Is there anyway I can see you and have some peripheral tests to rule out blood cancers. That seems to be all that has not been pretty well checked. It would be cash
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Thanks, I have high hemoglobin in blood,trace blood in urine, and liver cysts, my doc says it's fine. I don't agree
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This checklist made me feel good! Thanks :) Thanks so very much for giving up a part of your Sunday. Appreciative!
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Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Boston University School of Medicine, MA
Graduated 2003MD
Residency
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
Completed 2003
Awards
Top Oncologist and Hematologist , First Place, California - Summer
2014
Top Oncologist and Hematologist , Second Place, California - Fall
2014
Master Rx Editor, First Place, National - Winter
2015
Affiliations
ABIM
ASCO
American Society of Hematology (ASH)
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