Piro Lito, MD, PHD

I am a medical oncologist working in Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Urgent Care Center, which provides specialized care for patients with medical emergencies related to cancer and its treatment. My strength as a clinician is based on my background in science, and I endeavor to serve as a medical onc...

I am a board-certified medical oncologist who specializes in the use of novel immunotherapies, which act by stimulating or strengthening the immune system's inherent ability to fight cancer, to treat melanoma and other cancers. I work closely with a multidisciplinary team of medical oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, and research nurses in the Immunotherapeutics Clinical Core (a specialized center for phase I clinical trials of new immunotherapy agents) and on the Melanoma and Sarcoma Service.

I am a board-certified hematologist and oncologist, and I am a member of a multidisciplinary team that cares for patients who are undergoing bone marrow transplantation. My particular expertise is using transplantation to treat patients with myelodysplastic syndromes and with acute myelogenous le...