Marwan Abdelwadod Tolba
Assistant Professor

Email: Marwan.Tolba@dal.ca
Phone: 902-473-6096
Fax: 902-473-7205
Mailing Address:
Department of Radiation Oncology
Dalhousie University
Nova Scotia Cancer Centre
5820 University Avenue
Halifax, B3H 1V7
Dalhousie University
Nova Scotia Cancer Centre
5820 University Avenue
Halifax, B3H 1V7
Clinical Sites
- Genitourinary Cancer
- Pediatric Cancer
Education
- Training clinical fellowships in Breast cancer/SRS & Genitourinary Cancer Radiation Oncology, McGill university
- Training Clinical fellowship in Pediatric Radiation Oncology, Children’s Cancer Hospital - Egypt
- Master’s degree in Clinical Oncology, Ain shams University, Egypt
- Egyptian Board of Radiation Oncology, 5-years residency training at National Cancer Institute and Children’s Cancer Hospital, Cairo University, Egypt
- MD, MBBCh - Egypt
Research Interests
- Interested and working currently on multiple research projects: GU, Breast, Pediatrics, Global Cancer Control and Cancer Burden in LMICs/MENA, AI/bigdata/radiomics in radiation oncology, benign tumors, Health disparities and Cancer in Vulnerable populations
Clinical Sites
- Breast Cancer
- Genitourinary Cancer
- Brain Mets (SRS)
Academic Interests
- Teaching of residents, fellows, and medical students.
- Podcasting medical talks and Social media work on public and community cancer awareness
Recent Publications
- Salvage Whole-Pelvic Radiation and Long-Term Androgen-Deprivation Therapy in the Management of High-Risk Prostate Cancer: Long-Term Update of the McGill 0913 Study. Elakshar, Sara; Tolba, Marwan; Tisseverasinghe, Steven; Pruneau, Laurie; Di Lalla, Vanessa; Bahoric, Boris; Niazi, Tamim. Current Oncology. August 2023 | Journal article. DOI: 10.3390/curroncol30080526.
- Neoadjuvant versus Concurrent Androgen Deprivation Therapy in Localized Prostate Cancer Treated with Radiotherapy: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Cartes, Rodrigo; Karim, Muneeb Uddin; Tisseverasinghe, Steven; Tolba, Marwan; Bahoric, Boris; Anidjar, Maurice; McPherson, Victor; Probst, Stephan; Rompré-Brodeur, Alexis; Niazi, Tamim. Cancers. June 2023 | Journal article. DOI: 10.3390/cancers15133363.
- Radiation-Induced Sarcomas of the Breast: A Review of a 20-Year Single-Center Experience. Vanessa Di Lalla; Marwan Tolba; Farzin Khosrow-Khavar; Ayesha Baig; Carolyn Freeman; Valérie Panet-Raymond. Cureus, 2023-04-25 | DOI: 10.7759/cureus.38096.
- Salvage external beam radiotherapy after HIFU failure in localized prostate cancer: A single institution experience. Vanessa Di Lalla; Sara Elakshar; Maurice Anidjar; Marwan Tolba; Toufic Hassan; Boris Bahoric; Victor McPherson; Stephan Probst; Tamim Niazi. Frontiers in Oncology, 2022-11-03 | Journal article. DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2022.1028858.
- Should Prostate Cancer Patients with History of Cardiovascular Events Be Preferentially Treated with LHRH Antagonists? Steven Tisseverasinghe; Marwan Tolba; Fred Saad; Gwenaëlle Gravis; Boris Bahoric; Tamim Niazi Journal of Clinical Oncology, JCO, 2022-07-21, Journal article DOI: 10.1200/JCO.22.00883. Also available as an e-ESO Podcast.
- Hypofractionated radiotherapy for Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG): A non-inferiority prospective randomized study including 253 children. Mohamed S.Zaghloul, AzzaNasr, MarwanTolba, AmalRefaat, AydaYoussef, AmalMosaab, AbdelrahmanEnayet, OmarArafa, EslamMaher, EmanEldebawy. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics. Volume 113, Issue 2, 2022, Pages 360-368, ISSN 0360-3016.