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The Breast Center
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven
35 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Tara Sanft, MD

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Medical Oncology, Breast Oncology
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Patient type treated
Adult
Accepting new patients
Yes
Referral required
From patients or physicians
Board Certified in
Hospice & Palliative Medicine, Internal Medicine , and Medical Oncology
Insurance accepted

Biography

Tara Sanft, MD, is a Yale Medicine medical oncologist and director of the Survivorship Program at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital. She enjoys helping people with the issues they face after cancer treatment and creating survivorship care plans for them—individualized “road maps” for how to go about living daily life after cancer.

“Once the patient is done with treatment and on surveillance,” Dr. Sanft says, “they're considered in the ‘survivorship phase’ of their treatment. And that's the phase where they get lost in transition and the patient may think, ‘I'm falling off the cliff, I finished my treatment, my next appointment is in a year… now what?’”

To help, Dr. Sanft and her team, which includes a social worker, physical therapist and nutritionist, address common problems people may be experiencing, including fear of recurrence and sexual intimacy issues. They also make specific diet, exercise and follow-up care recommendations to help survivors feel more in control of their lives.

“For many patients, this survivorship period is marked with fear,” she says. “It's kind of adjusting to a ‘new normal’—a new sense of your physical, emotional and spiritual self after cancer.”

Titles

  • Associate Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
  • Chief, Patient Experience Officer
  • Medical Director, Survivorship Clinic

Education & Training

  • Fellowship
    Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois (2010)
  • Fellowship
    Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois (2010)
  • Resident
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (2007)
  • MD
    Medical College Wisconsin (2004)

Additional Information

Locations
The Breast Center
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven
35 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Biography

Tara Sanft, MD, is a Yale Medicine medical oncologist and director of the Survivorship Program at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital. She enjoys helping people with the issues they face after cancer treatment and creating survivorship care plans for them—individualized “road maps” for how to go about living daily life after cancer.

“Once the patient is done with treatment and on surveillance,” Dr. Sanft says, “they're considered in the ‘survivorship phase’ of their treatment. And that's the phase where they get lost in transition and the patient may think, ‘I'm falling off the cliff, I finished my treatment, my next appointment is in a year… now what?’”

To help, Dr. Sanft and her team, which includes a social worker, physical therapist and nutritionist, address common problems people may be experiencing, including fear of recurrence and sexual intimacy issues. They also make specific diet, exercise and follow-up care recommendations to help survivors feel more in control of their lives.

“For many patients, this survivorship period is marked with fear,” she says. “It's kind of adjusting to a ‘new normal’—a new sense of your physical, emotional and spiritual self after cancer.”

Titles

  • Associate Professor of Medicine (Medical Oncology)
  • Chief, Patient Experience Officer
  • Medical Director, Survivorship Clinic

Education & Training

  • Fellowship
    Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois (2010)
  • Fellowship
    Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois (2010)
  • Resident
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine (2007)
  • MD
    Medical College Wisconsin (2004)

Additional Information

Locations
The Breast Center
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven
35 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06511
The Breast Center
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven
35 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06511