A Long Island native, Dr. Frederick Gandolfo graduated with a BS in biology from Fordham University in Bronx, NY.  He attended SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine.  He completed internal medicine residency training at New York University.  He continued at NYU for gastroenterology fellowship and was awarded fellow of the year.  Dr. Gandolfo is board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology.

After practicing in a large group for several years, Dr. Gandolfo decided to go solo in 2018 and started his own practice, Precision Digestive Care, located in Huntington, NY.

Dr. Gandolfo lives in Long Island with his wife and two children. Most of his time outside of medicine revolves happily around doing dad stuff, but he is also an amateur photographer, fitness enthusiast, frustrated writer, and empiricist at heart.




Posts by Frederick Gandolfo, MD

Letter: Chronic rectal bleeding after colon cancer operation.

Over two years ago, I had a colon resection for the removal of a cancerous tumor (stage 2A). Ever since, I have had on and off bleeding in my stool. My surgeon has done two sigmoidoscopies and my gastro doctor has done two colonoscopies.

What does a positive Cologuard test mean?

What is immediately apparent from these numbers is that Cologuard rarely misses cancer. However, if we count polyps as a significant finding, there are plenty of false-positive results (45%) and plenty of false-negatives too (34%). So is Cologuard a good test overall?

Are you a “pill person”?

When someone has a real disease and tells me they're not a pill person, I can't help but wonder what exactly does that mean? Someone with dangerously high blood pressure, who is not a pill person will soon become a stroke person.

Retroflexion in the right colon: Why to do it.

Should retroflexion in the right colon become a routine part of screening colonoscopy? Let's frame this question with the following facts: Colonoscopy is less-protective against right-sided cancers (which implies that colonoscopy is less-effective at finding or removing right-sided polyps...

Retroflexion in the right colon: How to do it.

Since the name of my site is Retroflexions, it's about time I wrote an article about how to retroflex! More specifically, how does one retroflex in the right colon? (Fair warning: This article is probably only interesting to gastroenterologists.)

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