About
Dr. Tiffany Troso
You Don't Have to Navigate This Alone and
You Shouldn't Have to
Cancer doesn't just challenge your body. It challenges everything you thought you knew about your life, your strength, and who's really in your corner. The system moves fast, the language is overwhelming, and somehow you're expected to make the biggest decisions of your life while barely catching your breath. That's where we change the story - together.
We Prepare
Together, we translate the medical chaos into plain-English clarity. You'll understand your diagnosis, your options, and what questions to ask - before you walk into that next appointment.
We Participate
Together, we build your confidence to actively engage in treatment decisions. No more sitting quietly while doctors talk over you. You'll have the tools to speak up and be heard.
We Partner
Together, we create a relationship where your medical team works with you, not around you. I help you build the partnerships that put you at the center of your own care.
I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH
The Moment That Changed Everything
And the Doctor It Helped Me Become
My path to medicine didn't start in childhood. I found it in college, when I fell in love with molecular biology at Princeton. I was fascinated by how microscopic changes in DNA could lead to something as life-altering as cancer. One of the labs on campus was studying the p53 gene - a mutation found in most tumors. I was hooked.
But the seed for my approach to care was planted much earlier.
As a little girl, I watched my mother struggle to care for my grandmother, who had thyroid cancer. I remember sitting in the back seat of her white Pontiac, the red leather scorching in the summer heat, as she returned from the hospital - frustrated, in tears. The doctors didn't talk to her. No one explained what was happening. She was left alone to manage fear and pain without a roadmap.
That memory stayed with me. I didn't always know I would become a doctor, but once I did, I knew exactly the kind I wanted to be.
Then I spent 25 years at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center treating thousands of women with breast and gynecologic cancers - and I saw my grandmother's experience repeating itself every single day.
Tracy wasn't the exception. She was the pattern. Brilliant, capable, strong women walk into my office completely lost - not because they lacked intelligence or courage, but because the system had failed to see them. I watched patients swallow their questions because the doctor seemed rushed. I saw women who managed entire households and careers go silent in exam rooms, putting everyone else first - even in the middle of their own crisis.