Meng Gan, M.D.

Radiation Oncologist Meng Gan, M.D., works with patients undergoing treatment at City of Hope^® Cancer Center Chicago, bringing expertise in a wide range of innovative radiation therapy techniques to each patient’s multidisciplinary cancer care team and helping develop personalized treatment plans for patients with diseases including breast, prostate and lung cancer. 

Board-certified by the American Board of Radiology, Dr. Gan believes in treating patients with a focus on compassion and education, helping them understand their cancer care options and make empowered decisions about their health. She is an expert in multiple radiation techniques, including 3-D conformal radiation therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, brachytherapy and volumetric-modulated arc therapy. 

Dr. Gan received her medical degree from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. She completed a preliminary internship in internal medicine at Loma Linda University in California, before completing her radiation oncology residency at the University of California, Irvine. She has multiple publications to her name and is a member of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

• Chen AM, Harris JP, Gan M, et al. Posttreatment Surveillance Imaging After Radiation for Head and Neck Cancer. JAMA Network Open 2023.
• Gan M, Harris JP, Truong A, Nabar R, Tjoa T, Haidar Y, Armstrong WB, Chen AM. Timing of chemotherapy and radiation delivery for patients receiving chemoradiation for head and neck cancer: When does "concurrent" mean concurrent? Oral Oncol 2023.
• Harada G, Ku E, Yeakel J, Gan M, Juma S, Maxim P, Seyedin S, Chen A, Harris J. Observation of Acute Toxicity Events in Lung Cancer Patients Treated Concurrently with a Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor. ASTRO 2022.
• Ku E, Yeakel K, Gan M, Ahmed F, Harris J, Kuo J, Wolf R, Dayantha F, Seyedin S. The Role of Ablative Radiotherapy to Liver Oligometastases from Colorectal Cancer. Current Colorectal Cancer Reports 2021.
• Meng Gan, Faisal Ahmed, Jeremy Harris, Jeffrey Kuo. Palliative Radiation Field Extent for Post-Operative Indwelling Hardware. Poster Presentation. ASTRO 2020.
• Meng Gan, Rohit Ganju, Michelle Faucheux, Mindy Tennapel, Melissa Mitchell. Breast Cancer Patient-Reported Quality of Life Outcomes Following Radiation Therapy. ASTRO 2019.
• Gan M, Boothe D, Neklason DW, Samadder NJ, Frandsen J, Keener MB, Lloyd S. Outcomes and complications of radiation therapy in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis. J Gastrointest Oncol 2017.
• Orton A, Boothe D, Gan M, Monroe MM, Hitchcock YJ, Lloyd S. The "decay" of brachytherapy use in tumors of the oral cavity: A population-based patterns of care and outcomes analysis from 1973 to 2012. Brachytherapy 2016.
• Meng Gan, Sherwin D’ Souza. Role of Glyburide and Sitagliptin For Insulin Independence in Relapsed 6q24 Transient Neonatal Diabetes Mellitus. Poster Presentation. American College of Physicians Utah Regional Conference, 2016.
• Dustin Boothe, Meng Gan, Shane Lloyd. Increasing Representation of Randomized Controlled Trials Targeting Oligometastatic Disease. Poster Presentation. American Radium Society 2015.
• Shane Lloyd, Meng Gan, Dustin Boothe. Factors Associated with Early Termination of Cancer Clinical Trials Involving Radiation Therapy. Poster Presentation. ASTRO 2015.