Dr. Sumana Narayanan is a Surgical Oncologist at Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center. She specializes in the comprehensive treatment of breast cancer, benign breast diseases, skin cancers as well as malignant and benign soft tissue tumors. She is facile in the implementation of hidden scar surgical techniques for breast cancer treatment as well as in the multidisciplinary treatment of several malignancies.

Dr. Narayanan earned her medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. She completed her residency in General Surgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School where she was also Administrative Chief Resident. She subsequently completed a Complex General Surgical Oncology fellowship at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY.

Dr. Narayanan is double Board Certified in General Surgery by the American Board of Surgery and Complex General Surgical Oncology by the Society of Surgical Oncology.

Dr. Narayanan is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Society of Surgical Oncology. She has widely published scientific articles in the fields of surgical oncology, cancer immunology and general surgery. She is also actively engaged in teaching and dedicated to the training of future physicians and surgeons.

She is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Columbia Division of Surgical Oncology at Mount Sinai Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Florida International University College of Medicine and Assistant Professor of Surgery at NOVA Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine.

*This physician is employed by Mount Sinai Medical Center

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Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications:

• Oshi, M., Kawaguchi, T., Yan, L., Peng, X., Qi., Q., Tian, W., Schulze, A., McDonald, KA., Narayanan, S. et al. Immune cytolytic activity is associated with reduced intra-tumoral genetic heterogeneity and with better clinical outcomes in triple negative breast cancer. Am J Cancer Res. 2021. PMID: 34354864
• Rafols, M., Mejia, O., Oh, KS., Bendixen, B., Jorge, I and Narayanan, S. An Unusual Case of Lower Extremity Clear Cell Hidradenocarcinoma. Case Reports in Surgery. 2020. PMID: 32328335
• Narayanan, S et al. Influence of Lymph Node Yield after Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer on Pathologic Response and Survival. Journal of Surgical Research. 2020. PMID: 32172008
• Tokumara, Y., Asaoka, M., Oshi, M., Katsuta, E., Yan, L., Narayanan, S. et al. High expression of microRNA-143 is associated with favorable tumor immune microenvironment and better survival in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. International Journal of Molecular Science. 2020. PMID: 32370060
• Narayanan, S et al. Tumor infiltrating Lymphocytes and Macrophages improve Survival in Microsatellite Unstable Colorectal Cancer. Scientific Reports. 2019. PMID: 31530839
• Finkelstein, P and Narayanan, S., Diffuse skin staining after using isosulfan blue for sentinel lymph node biopsies. Annals of Breast Surgery. 2019
• Narayanan S et al. An Evaluation of Postoperative Complications and Cost after Short Stay Thyroid Operations. Ann Surg Oncol. 2015. Dec 1. PMID: 26628433
• Narayanan, S and Skitzki, J. Immunopathology of Bone and Connective Tissue Cancers and Immunotherapy of Sarcomas. Cancer Immunology, 2^nd