Dr. Kara Long Roche

Dr. Kara Long Roche, MD, MSc, FACOG, is a gynecologic oncologist who is dedicated to improving the lives of women with gynecologic cancers. These include ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, cervical cancer, and vulvar cancer.

Dr. Roche is Associate Director for the Gynecologic Oncology Fellowship Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She performs surgeries at Memorial Hospital and Josie Robertson Surgery Center in Manhattan, and sees patients at Rockefeller Outpatient Clinic, also in Manhattan, and MSK Basking Ridge, in New Jersey.

She performs about 250 gynecologic procedures each year, using minimally invasive techniques when appropriate so that women can get back to their lives more quickly after surgery. In addition, Dr. Roche is skilled at performing cytoreductive surgery, which means she removes all visible disease so that the cancer is more susceptible to chemotherapy. For women who want to start or grow their families, she performs fertility-preserving surgical procedures whenever possible.

Dr. Roche is also committed to developing better ways to screen for and prevent gynecologic cancers in women who are at higher risk for these diseases. She has extensive experience in performing risk-reduction surgery, and is currently working to develop new strategies to improve this procedure. She is also researching the development of novel screening and early detection techniques with the goal of reducing the number of women who are impacted by gynecologic cancers.