Cancer Medical Team & Doctors
The Dorothy E. Schneider Cancer Center at Mills-Peninsula offers advanced medicine and technology in a beautiful environment filled with waterfalls, sunlight and art. The expert medical team provides treatment that exceeds national benchmarks on a variety of quality measures and embraces a vision of mind/body/spirit care that is equally important to healing.
Quality and Service Highlights
- Accredited with commendation by the American College of Surgeons as a Community Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Program, the highest community program distinction.
- Exceeds National Cancer Database average five-year survival rates for breast, prostate, colon, bladder and endometrial cancers.
- First to introduce new radiation technologies, such as brachytherapy for prostate and breast cancers and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), which reduce side effects and treatment time.
- First community hospital cancer center to have an oncological surgeon on staff.
- Only Bay Area site participating in an international study of early lung cancer detection.
- Peninsula’s most comprehensive lymphedema program.
- Mills-Peninsula’s Women’s Center was one of 11 sites nationwide selected to participate in a pilot survey conducted by the National Accreditation Programs for Breast Centers, which gave the program a three-year accreditation as a comprehensive evaluation and management center.
Cancer Center Doctors
Kent Adler, M.D.
Kent Adler, M.D.
Medical oncologist
Dr. Adler completed his medical training at University of California at San Francisco in 1984 following undergraduate work at Harvard University. He completed his internship and residency at Cornell Medical Center in New York and his medical oncology fellowship at Stanford University Medical School. He is a faculty member at Stanford, where he was involved in the founding of the comprehensive thoracic clinic. He is a recognized regional expert in the treatment of lung cancer.
218 De Anza Blvd
San Mateo, California 94402
Phone: (650) 341-9131
Fax: (650) 341-9135
Aziz Ahmad, M.D.
Aziz Ahmad, M.D.
Surgical oncologist
Dr. Ahmad received his medical degree from The Chicago Medical School in 2000 and completed his residency in surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York in 2005. He completed his surgical oncology fellowship at John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica. His research has focused on colorectal cancer and thyroid cancers.
1720 El Camino Real, #101
Burlingame, California 94010
Phone: (650) 652-0600
Fax: (650) 652-0605
Bruce L. Allen, M.D.
Bruce L. Allen, M.D.
General surgery
Dr. Allen received his medical degree at Stanford University in 1974, following undergraduate work at Harvard University. He was a resident in surgery at University of California at San Francisco. He practices general surgery and surgical oncology with a special interest in laparoscopic colon resection. He began practicing at Mills-Peninsula in 1981.
50 So. San Mateo Drive, Suite 360
San Mateo, California 94401
Phone: (650) 342-9491
Fax: (650) 342-6958
Harriet Borofsky, M.D.
Harriet Borofsky, M.D.
Radiologist
Dr. Borofsky completed her medical degree at Harvard Medical School following undergraduate work at Brown University, Rhode Island. She completed fellowships in body imaging and mammography and a residency in radiology at Stanford University Hospital. Dr. Borofsky has lectured and published on a variety of topics including new technologies in early detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. As medical director of breast imaging at Mills-Peninsula’s Women’s Center, she led implementation of the area’s first digital mammography and breast MRI program.
1783 El Camino Real
Burlingame, California 94010
Phone: (650) 696-5515
Jennifer Brown, M.D.
Jennifer Brown, M.D.
Medical oncologist
Dr. Brown received her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994 and her subsequent medical education at Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1999. She completed her internship and residency at Stanford University School of Medicine and her oncology fellowship at Northwestern University, where she developed expertise in the treatment of breast cancer.
218 De Anza Blvd.
San Mateo, California 94402
Phone: (650) 341-9131
Fax: (650) 341-9135
Karen G. Chee, M.D.
Karen G. Chee
Medical oncologist, hematologist
Karen Chee, M.D., completed her undergraduate work at the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. She received her medical degree at the University of California at Davis in 2001, completed her residency there in 2004 and completed her fellowship in hematology/oncology in 2007. Dr. Chee was honored as chief fellow at UC Davis Medical Center in the Division of Hematology Oncology. Her special interests are hematology and general oncology.
218 De Anza Boulevard
San Mateo, California 94402
Phone: (650) 341-9135
Bradley Ekstrand, M.D., Ph. D.
Bradley Ekstrand, M.D., Ph. D.
Medical oncologist
Dr. Ekstrand attended Yale University School of Medicine where he earned his medical degree in 1997 and a Ph.D. in cancer biology in 1998. He completed a fellowship in medical oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he currently is a member of the clinical faculty. His clinical and investigational interests center on lymphoma and the genitourinary malignancies. He is actively involved with groups supporting patients with lymphomas and prostate cancer.
218 De Anza Blvd.
San Mateo, California 94402
Phone: (650) 341-9131
Fax: (650) 341-9135
Brian H. Henderson, M.D.
Brian H. Henderson, M.D.
Medical oncologist, hematologist
Dr. Henderson completed his medical degree at the University of Washington Medical School in 1974 and his internship and residency at University of California at Los Angeles in 1977. He completed his hematology fellowship and oncology training at Stanford University School of Medicine in 1980, where he served on the oncology faculty. Dr. Henderson helped develop the Dorothy E. Schneider Cancer Center at Mills-Peninsula and serves as Medical Director for the center. He also chairs the oncology committee and is director of the quality assurance programs at the Cancer Center.
100 S. Ellsworth Avenue, #807
San Mateo, California 94401
Phone: (650) 348-0893
Fax: (650) 348-3958
Steven M. Kurtzman, M.D.
Steven M. Kurtzman, M.D.
Radiation oncologist
Dr. Kurtzman completed undergraduate work at Cornell University in New York and received his medical degree at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1992. He has specialized training in intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), conformal radiotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery. The world’s foremost expert in cesium-131 radioisotope treatment, his specialty is prostate seed implantations.
100 S. San Mateo Drive
San Mateo, California 94401
Phone: (650) 696-4509
Fax: (650) 696-4664
Andrea P. Metkus, M.D.
Andrea P. Metkus, M.D.
General surgery, breast specialist
Dr. Metkus received her medical degree at the University of Chicago, Prizker School of Medicine in 1991 following completion of undergraduate work at Yale University. She completed her residency in general surgery at University of California at San Francisco in 1996. She is chair of Mills-Peninsula’s multi-disciplinary breast tumor board and director of Breast Cancer Services. Dr. Metkus developed a comprehensive breast cancer clinic at the Dorothy E. Schneider Cancer Center. She has published and lectured on sentinel node biopsy, less invasive approaches to breast cancer surgery.
1720 El Camino Real, #101
Burlingame, California 94010
Phone: (650) 652-0600
50 S. San Mateo Drive, #360
San Mateo, California 94401
Phone: (650) 342-9491
Fax: (650) 342-6958
Stephen A. Weller, M.D.
Stephen A. Weller, M.D.
Radiation oncologist
Dr. Weller has been instrumental in advancing the cancer program and development of the Dorothy E. Schneider Center at Mills-Peninsula. He completed his medical degree at University of Minnesota in 1971 and his fellowship in radiation oncology at Stanford University Medical Center, where he currently is a clinical associate professor. He has been in practice at Mills-Peninsula since 1975.
100 S. San Mateo Dr.
San Mateo, California 94401
Phone: (650) 696-4509
Fax: (650) 696-5644
Randolph Wong, M.D.
Randolph Wong, M.D.
General and thoracic surgeon
Dr. Wong received his medical degree at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia in 1988. He completed his surgical residency in general surgery at the University of Arizona. His clinical interests are in esophageal, colorectal, pancreatic and lung cancers. He has been with Mills-Peninsula since 1993.
1720 El Camino Real, #101
Burlingame, California 94010
Phone: (650) 652-0600
Fax: (650) 652-0605