Maimonides Cancer Institute

A family member of mine goes there for Chemo. Her doctor and the nursing staff that administer chemo are wonderful and caring.

Extremely proficient doctors. This center puts in the most effort for aesthetic design. You feel like you’re in an architect’s office. There is a meditation room and the coffee is a great brand, just saying.

My father died of colon cancer in 2009, he was under the treatment of Doctor Yiquing Xu in Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn NY.
My father was 64 years old when he dies of cancer, he had a short battle with cancer and only lived months.
Dr. Xu was a heartless, cold, inconsiderate and unreachable physician, she was short with us and had no time to explain what was happening with my father and was very rude when I inquired about her treatment for him. She would explain it to my father, whom was drugged up with pain killers and chemo and expected him to fully comprehend what she and her team were doing. When I would ask her to explain it to me she was hesitant and seemed not sympathetic that I was across the country and trying to understand what was happening to him.
We needed her to agree to switch medical insurances so he can get Medicaid and be able to see another doctor at Sloan Kettering, she kept hesitating and would not agree to it, she felt he didn’t need to see another doctor or get a second opinion. After calling and inquiring many time over and over again, she finally agreed to it but it was too late my father passed away.
During the last few weeks, his pain was so bad and he was suffering yet she refused to give him morphine or a reference to pain management doctor. My father was in really bad condition and she and her office refused to see him before his regularly scheduled chemo appointment. I took him to his final chemo appointment and they could not give him chemo because he was in such bad state, finally she saw him and said we needed to take him to ER, how very observant of her, which we did he stayed in the hospital for ten days, she never came to see him, until the very last day we were taking him home. No one at Maimonides hospital would tell us, what they were doing to him or update us on what was happening with him.
They kept performing costly spinal test, without ever telling us why or what the results were. They had in a horrible room the whole ten days, while he was at Maimonides hospital, other patients were in a special ward which had nicer rooms and better maintained on the other side of the hall, I guess they were paying cash.
Neither Maimonides, nor Doctor Xu, they did not care or valued my father’s life and quality of life, but to me, my sister and my mom he was our beloved dad who’d sacrificed his life and everything for us, and was a good human being whom was a gentle and kind person whom was too polite and modest to demand anything.
Dr Xu’s and all of the horrible staff at Maimonides hospital should find a different career, they are not suited to care for the sick and dying.
They don’t have any compassion or care.

I’m extremely happy to say that my father is now cancer free after months of intense chemotherapy!
I have only the highest praise for the staff at Maimonides Cancer Institiute, in particular Dr. Solomon and his partner Velta. They were 100% responsible for helping my dad, thank you for giving him a new lease on life!

Please, if you value your life GO ELSEWHERE. Maimonides cancer center failed to Diagnose my mothers breast cancer that had moved into her brain and it caused her untimely death. DR Astrow and his team are nice enough, but failure to diagnose after complaining of extreme dizziness and vomitting for months and nothing was done. As a matter of fact we were told she was lactose intolerant and then told she was depressed when in fact the cancer had become metatiastic. What a nightmare. Choose wisely maybe go into Manhattan or to the cancer centers of america. Remember you only get one life. I miss my mother so terribly and she didnt have to die and suffer at the hands of these people. Anyone who has any questions about this cancer center may contact me at
and i will be happy to provide answers.
Do you really beleive the reviews by people who say the «free parking is so great»? They work for the hospital and are giving fake reviews. Do yourself a favor and if your reading this, do your research and go to a real cancer center or go to sloan in the city.

Ditto! Free parking for patients is one of the other conveniencies

this is one of the MMC centers, not necessarily located near the hospital.
I would say this is one of the best places to get treated for cancer or other chronic blood problems in brooklyn, without having to schlep yourself to memorial sloan k, the very good/​popular cancer hospital in the city.
(and at sloan k, you can wait for hours before you can even get your blood tested let alone get an transfusion/​infusion.)
they treat their patients great, especially the kids. very attentive, since they’re not dealing with as many patients as sloan k. and they have top notch doctors, some from sloan kettering too, who really care and listen. i think this is one of the best places to go, if life leads you down this path
they do radiology, have an adult section along with a pediactric one, along with a women’s/breast center