Surgical oncologist Dr. Donald McCain specializes in treating melanomas, sarcomas, breast tumors, and cancers of the gastrointestinal system, including colon and pancreatic tumors. He has extensive experience with abdominal sarcomas and receives many referrals specifically for that procedure. “When I operate on someone, I know exactly who that person is, what the problem is that she or he has, and what are the likely ways in which I’m going to fix it,” says Dr. McCain.

“I don’t operate on anyone if I haven’t thought of at least five different ways to do their surgery. Regardless of what I encounter, there’s a backup plan and a further backup plan.”

Vice chairman and chief of Surgical Oncology at the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack Meridian Health at Hackensack University Medical Center, Dr. McCain also has expertise in state-of-the-art surgical procedures, such as liver resections, laparoscopic surgery, radiofrequency ablation, and robotics.