About me
Lucy Maria De La Cruz, MD, has joined MedStar Georgetown University Hospital as the Chief of the Breast Surgery Program and Director of the Ourisman Breast Center director of the MedStar Breast Health Program at MedStar Georgetown. She will be the director of the hospital’s breast surgery fellowship program. Dr. De La Cruz is a fellowship-trained breast surgeon who specializes in a number of advanced procedures, including wireless lumpectomies, hidden scar technique, and nipple-sparing mastectomies. She has been published in over two dozen scientific papers and her pivotal paper on nipple sparing mastectomy oncologic outcomes has been sighted worldwide. She is currently a peer reviewer for the Annals of Surgical Oncology, and is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Dr. De La Cruz’s credentials include:
- Board certification: American Board of Surgery
- Medical degree: Universidad Central Del Este, Dominican Republic
- Fellowship: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Residency: University of Miami School of Medicine
Dr. De La Cruz’s areas of special interest include:
Dr. De La Cruz has a strong and long-standing commitment to promoting the equity and efficacy with which breast cancer patients are treated, a principle that has guided her clinical practice and research endeavors. She is an academic breast surgeon who conducts outcomes focused research, how the impact of genomic mapping guides breast cancer treatment and among her special interest is male breast cancer treatment. She is also passionate about disparities in breast cancer treatment as well as improving the quality and efficiency of breast cancer care delivery using the principles of value-based health care.
Clinical areas of focus
- Breast Cancer
- Carcinoma In Situ Of Breast
- Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS)
- Her2neu Receptor
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer
- Invasive Breast Cancer
- Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Abnormal Mammogram
- Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia
- Benign Breast Lump
- Breast Abscess
- Breast Cancer
- Breast Cyst
- Breast Diseases
- Breast Lump
- Breast Thickening
- Carcinoma In Situ Of Breast
- Contusion Of Breast
- Dense Breast
- Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS)
- Dysplasia Of Breast
- Er Positive Breast Cancer
- Family History Of Breast Cancer
- Fibrocystic Breast Changes
- Galactocele
- Galactorrhea
- Gynecomastia
- Her2neu Receptor
- Hereditary Breast And Ovarian Cancer
- History Of Breast Cancer
- History Of Fibrocystic Disease
- Hypopigmented Nipple Lesions
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer
- Invasive Breast Cancer
- Lobular Carcinoma In Situ (LCIS)
- Male Breast Cancer
- Mammary Duct Ectasia
- Mammary Dysplasia
- Mastitis
- Mastodynia
- Mastopathy
- Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Microcalcifications
- Mondor's Disease
- Nipple Discharge
- Nipple Diseases
- Nipple Fissure
- Nipple Lesions
- Paget's Disease Of The Breast
- Postpartum Mastitis
- Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Procedures I perform
- Aspiration Breast Cyst
- Bloodless Breast Surgery
- Breast Biopsy
- Breast Cancer Follow Up
- Breast Conservation
- Breast Examination
- Breast Fine Needle Aspiration
- Breast Surgery
- Cancer Risk Reduction Surgery
- Core Needle Biopsy Of Breast
- Intraoperative Radiation Therapy
- Lumpectomy
- Male Breast Reduction
- Mastectomy
- Mastotomy
- Open Breast Biopsy
- Sentinel Node Biopsy
- Ultrasound Guided Breast Biopsy
Practice locations
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3800 Reservoir Road Northwest Betty Lou Ourisman Breast Center Washington, DC, 20007
202-295-0560Fax 877-376-2420
1133 21st Street Northwest Building 2 Washington, DC, 20036
202-416-2000miles away
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans/ UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans HMO, POS, PPO
- United Healthcare Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO, GEHA, Compass Rose)
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv/Special Needs Plans
- UHC Community Plan of MD
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Medicare Fee for Service
- Kaiser Virginia Premier
- Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS
- Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO
- Cigna HealthSpring Medicare Advantage
- CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- CFBCBS EPO
- Aetna Better Health of Maryland
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Open EPO Plus
- Aetna HMO
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Opoen HMO Option
- FIRST HEALTH
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)
- Tricare Prime
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Open POS II
- Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- PPO and PPO Plus
- Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus
- First Health PPO
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Choice POS & Choice POS II
- POS OA & OA Plus
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- CIGNA Indemnity
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- HealthyBlue PPO
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- United Student Resources
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Innovation Health: POS
- Choice Fund PPO
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)
- CFBCBS (NCA) Indemnity
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- CIGNA EPO
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Open HMO
- United Healthcare Choice
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Network OA
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Education
Board Certification: American Board of Surgery, Surgery
Fellowship Program: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (2016)
Residency Program: University of Miami Hospital and Clinics (2015)
Medical School: Universidad Central del Este (2004)