Carey K. Anders MD

Dr. Anders is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology. Her clinical interest is in breast cancer, specifically breast cancer arising in younger women and those who have developed brain metastasis. Dr. Anders is a translational researcher who is involved in the design of both clinical trials and preclinical, laboratory experiments within the Lineberger Cancer Center. She completed her Hematology-Oncology fellowship at Duke University (2005-2008) during which time she conducted a large-scale genomic analysis of breast cancers arising in younger women when compared to older counterparts.

Her interesting results illustrating unique biology uniting breast tumors arising in a younger host were recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. During her fellowship, she was also instrumental in the design of several Phase II clinical trials for women who had developed brain metastasis from breast cancer - an aggressive complication of advanced disease for which systemic options and clinical trials are currently limited.