Chief of hematology and oncology at Scripps Mercy Hospital, Marin Xavier, MD practices at the Prebys Cancer Center on Fifth Avenue in the 92103, with a panel centered on blood cancers, neuroendocrine tumors, and gynecologic malignancies. Board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in both medical oncology (2008) and hematology (2009), she sends staging and restaging PET/CT studies to Imaging Healthcare Specialists - Hillcrest for lymphoma and neuroendocrine tumor workups. Dr. Xavier completed her hematology/oncology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania after an internal medicine residency at Scripps Mercy and earned her MD at Perelman School of Medicine in 2002. She consults with patients in Spanish and Portuguese in addition to English, which matters for the cross-border oncology population the Prebys facility was built to serve. Infusion suites and TrueBeam linear accelerator radiation are delivered onsite at the $59 million center, with admissions routed to the adjacent Scripps Mercy Hospital San Diego when inpatient care is required. Her Phase I through III clinical trial practice covers relapsed leukemia, lymphoma, and previously untreated metastatic neuroendocrine cancers.