Marwan Abdelwadod Tolba, MD, Msc., FRCP Edin., FRCPC

Clinical Sites

• GU, Peds, SBRT, SRS

Education 

• Canadian Board certification from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in radiation oncology
• 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  

Academic Interests

• Teaching of residents, fellows, and medical students. 
• Podcasting medical talks and Social media work on public and community cancer awareness

Recent Publications

• Assessing the effects of prostate cancer therapies on cardiovascular health. Nature Reviews Urology, 2025-02-26 | Journal article| DOI: 10.1038/s41585-025-01002-0
• Optimal Treatment Strategies for Hormone-sensitive Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Does Local Radiotherapy Play a Role in High-volume Disease? European Urology 2024 | Journal article:
• 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.
• 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.