Video: Meet Dr. Comander and learn about breast cancer
Dr. Amy Comander specializes in the care of women with breast cancer. Dr. Comander is Medical Director of the Mass General Cancer Center in Waltham, where she also serves as Director of Breast Oncology and Cancer Survivorship at the Mass General Cancer Center in Waltham and at Newton Wellesley Hospital. She is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received her undergraduate degree and a master's degree in Neuroscience at Harvard University. She received her medical degree at Yale University School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency training and Hematology-Oncology fellowship training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. She is board certified in Hematology and Medical Oncology, and she is a Diplomat of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
Dr. Comander is well-known for her compassionate care and passionate devotion to her patients. She has served as a medical advisor to Oneinforty, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage about the one-in-forty chance of having inherited a BRCA mutation. She is proud to serve on the board of the Ellie Fund, a non-profit that provides services and support to women diagnosed with breast cancer in Massachusetts. Dr. Comander has a strong interest in improving the quality of life and outcome of cancer survivors through important lifestyle interventions, including physical activity, diet, and mind/body interventions. She promotes healthy lifestyles for both her active treatment patients as well as those in the survivorship phase of care. She has launched PAVING the Path to Wellness, a 12 week lifestyle medicine based survivorship program for women with breast cancer.
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Mass General Cancer Center in Waltham
52 Second Ave.
Suite 1110
Waltham, MA 02451
Phone: 781-487-6100
Mass General Cancer Center at Newton-Wellesley
2014 Washington St.
Newton, MA 02462
Phone: 617-219-1230
Medical Education
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Select Publications:
Comander A, Frates, B, and Tollefson M. Am J Lifestyle Medicine 2021 Jan 29;15(3):242-248
Breast Cancer: A Lifestyle Medicine Approach.
Orman A, Johnson DL, Comander A, Brockton N. Am J Lifestyle Medicine 2020 Apr 26;14(5):483-494.
Great experience from start to finish
Dr. Comander is warm, friendly, easy to communicate with and to understand.
Always time to listen, and explain about concerns and plan moving forward.
Dr. Amy Comander is an amazing doctor and an amazing human being who is compassionate, kind, knowledgeable, incredibly detailed. I feel so just grateful to have her as my doctor and I feel like I am in amazing hands and I wish the whole world could be full of Dr. Amy Comander.
I feel very confident about being under Dr. Comander's care.
I constantly feel grateful that Dr. Comander is my oncologist. She is an incomparably caring doctor and excellent and attentive listener. She reviews my chart with me carefully to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. She does outstanding work with her PAVING program-a lifestyle medicine program that has improved my health. Since I've been ... Read More
I am a Professional Healthcare Consultant and a sophisticated Patient. Dr Comander was compassionate, collaborative, a deep listener, did an initial review of my complex medical history, respected my concerns regarding Overtreatment that is common for DCIS treatment. I appreciated her focus and efforts to find and print a copy of the COMET study ... Read More
I appreciate Dr. Comander for truly listening and helping me to understand what I am feeling and her support! I appreciate how she makes me feel heard in my concerns about my health. I feel truly blessed and grateful for Dr. C
She was excellent
Dr Comander is a wonderful doctor. She explains things well. She really listens and is very kind