Armen Asik, MD 3350 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01107

"Dr. Asik is my father's oncologist. My dad has bile duct cancer that spread to his liver and was diagnosed with stage 3 upon initial staging. Dr. Asik is a very good oncologist in my opinion. He is quiet and at first, I thought he wasn't doing everything he could for my dad. When I met him in person and asked him difficult questions and a thorough explanation of things, I was very impressed. He ordered tests "stat" and explained things exceptionally well. I recommend him and he was much better than our experience with Dana farber."

"Worse experience in my life dealing with my cancer. Spent over 4 years with a professional team of drs in Boston. Dr asik dismissed everything that I told him being a new patient. Didn't read the new patient review questions. Wasn't offered a social worker or nothing. Told me I didn't know what I was ranking about. A d completely took me off meds I've been on for 4 years!!!!! His attitude was disgraceful!!!!!"

"I came to Dr. Asik after waiting around for biopsy and treatment for 5 months at another hospital. I got instant answers and results from him. I started treatment shortly after as well. He is very personable and made sure i knew everything there was to know about my treatment plan. I would highly recommend him to others."

"Dr Asik is missing half of what one needs to be an oncology dr. His recommendations for treatment were correct and supported by Dana farber but it might as well have been a kiosk giving us medical advice. Some people might prefer that but when you’re newlyweds and your 42 year old husband has stage four colon cancer you need so much more support than just chemotherapy (anyone going through this does). Which we did not receive at his office. When I had brought this up at the nurses station for the second time because I felt so uncomfortable with how he delivered the news of the cancer being back and it being stage four, I was told that “he is only human and is struggling with this situation”. At the end, when my husband was dying, we only saw dr asik once, all he literally said was ‘this is bad’ -as my husbands kidneys were failing and we were about to start his first round of dialysis - and then walked out of the room. To which my husband and I had to literally laugh out loud at just how ill-equipped this man was to be in the field he is. Yes, this WAS bad, my husband was beginning the last stages of his life. To be clear it is not the hard news that made it a negative experience with dr asik. We went to Dana farber at one point to get a second opinion and found out in contrast just what care we were missing. We were told everything that day in Dana farber and we were truly really cared for, and listened to and this man said all the hard things but when we left exhausted we also felt we finally had someone we could go to that was kind and caring as well as top notch care and treatment. And treated dr asik moving forward as just our provider of chemo."