Charu Aggarwal, MD, MPH

Medical Oncology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 2nd Floor West
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Physician Leader, Airways Malignancies Research
  • Director, Precision Oncology Innovation, Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation
  • Section Chief, Head & Neck and Thoracic Cancers, Hematology-Oncology
  • Leslye M. Heisler Professor for Lung Cancer Excellence

Dr. Aggarwal specializes in the management of patients with lung cancer. Her clinical research focus is on the development of novel immunotherapeutic approaches, and the discovery and application of biomarkers to guide therapy and monitor treatment. She serves as the local and national principal investigator for multiple clinical trials focusing on the development of targeted immunotherapy approaches.

My education and training

  • Medical School: Lady Hardinge Medical College
  • Residency: Buffalo General Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Fox Chase Cancer Center

Spoken languages

English
English

Reviews

Average Rating

213 reviews

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Anonymous
July 2026
highly intelligent
Anonymous
July 2026
she is the absolute best
Anonymous
June 2026
dr aggarwal has made my treatment at penn a positive experience.
Anonymous
June 2026
she is easy to converse with & wants to answer all of our questions, every visit!

Insurance accepted

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Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Aggarwal is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and conditions

Research

Publications

Marmarelis ME, Gilligan AM, Sugihara T, Marquart T, Whipple S, Wang Y, Allen-Coyle TJ, Bhandari NR, Aggarwal C. The Waiting Game: How NGS and Guideline-Concordant-Care Timing Shape Survival in Advanced NSCLC , Cancers (Basel), 18: 2026,2287


Meyer ML, Peters S, Borghaei H, Cascone T, Dacic S, Faivre-Finn C, Leighl N, Paz-Ares L, Aerts J, Aggarwal C, Ahn MJ, Arcila ME, Ardizzoni A, Arrieta O, Awad MM, Bar J, Barlesi F, Bazhenova L, Besse B, Chaft J, Cho BC, Curioni Fontecedro A, DE Ruysscher D, Dingemans AM, Dziadziuszko R, Felip E, Forde P, Gandara DR, Garassino MC, Garcia Campelo R, Garrido Lopez P, Gautschi O, Girard N, Goto Y, Gray J, Hendriks L, Hirsch F, Hui R, Janne PA, Kerr K, Khorshid O, Pechoux CLE, Leal T, Lin JJ, Linardou H, Liu S, Mahrous M, Malapelle U, Mercadante E, Mitsudomi T, Mok T, Mountzios G, Naidoo J, Normanno N, Novello S, Oliveira J, Pappagallo G, Perrone G, Pérol M, Raez LE, Ramella S, Rami-Porta R, Reckamp K, Reguart Aransay N, Remon Masip J, Ricardi U, Ricciuti B, Rodriguez-Abreu D, Rotow JK, Santos ES, Schalper K, Senan S, Seto T, Skoulidis F, Smit EF, Soares M, Solli P, Solomon B, Soo RA, Stahel R, Stiles BM, VAN Schil P, Veronesi G, Wistuba II, Wolf J, Wu YL, Zer A, Rolfo C, Landi L, Cappuzzo F. Bridging evidence and practice: international multidisciplinary consensus on non-metastatic NSCLC , J Thorac Oncol: 2026


Barsouk AA, Yaskolko M, Sussman JH, Sun L, Singh AP, Cohen RB, Aggarwal C, Marmarelis ME, Langer CJ. Poor Performance Status Associated With Inferior Tarlatamab Outcomes in a Large, Multi-institution Real-World Database of Patients With 2L + ES-SCLC , Clin Lung Cancer, 27: 2026,50-55


Reisenauer JS, DiBardino DM, Criner GJ, Hunt SJ, Panaro J, Friedberg J, Mansfield AS, Aggarwal C, Bodor JN, Callstrom MR. Safety and pathologic response of neoadjuvant pulsed electric field ablation and systemic therapy in early-stage resectable lung cancer: case series , J Thorac Dis, 18: 2026,669


Adam Barsouk, Maxim Yaskolko, Jonathan H. Sussman, Lova Sun, Roger B. Cohen, Charu Aggarwal, Corey J. Langer, Melina E. Marmarelis Sotorasib vs adagrasib in the 2L+ setting: Outcomes in a large, multi-institutional, real-world database of KRAS-G12C mutated mNSCLC. , J Clin Oncol: 2026


Bleiberg BA, Scholes DG, Reed-Guy L, Dravid D, Sun LL, Singh AP, Cohen RB, Langer CJ, Marmarelis ME, Aggarwal C. Erratum to "The incremental value of liquid biopsy in the initial evaluation of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer undergoing tissue-based molecular testing" [J. Liq. Biopsy 12 (2026) 100461] , J Liq Biopsy, 12: 2026,100472


Phurin Areesawangkit, Adam Barsouk, Maxim Yaskolko, Lucy Wang, Cole Friedes, Roger B. Cohen, Lova Sun, Charu Aggarwal, Melina E. Marmarelis, Aditi P. Singh, Kyle W. Robinson, Christopher D'Avella, Christine A. Ciunci, Steven J. Feigenberg, Jeffrey D. Bradley, Nikhil Yegya-Raman, Michelle Iocolano, Christiana Davis, Corey J. Langer Long-term survival outcomes of consolidative local ablative therapy after response to first-line systemic treatment in oligometastatic NSCLC. , J Clin Oncol: 2026


Michelle A. Worst, Andrew Small, Amy Furedy, Charu Aggarwal, Sandip P. Patel The impact of online CME on addressing clinical decision-making for immunotherapy in advanced squamous NSCLC. , J Clin Oncol: 2026


Xavier Orcutt, Vivek Nimgaonkar, Lova Sun, Charu Aggarwal, Aaron B. Cohen, Ronac Mamtani, Qi Long, Ravi B. Parikh Machine learning risk stratification in a US-based database to identify subgroups of patients with PD-L1-high NSCLC who benefit from adding chemotherapy to pembrolizumab. , J Clin Oncol: 2026


Rachel Jaber Chehayeb, Willdragon Wang, Lova Sun, Aditi P. Singh, Roger B. Cohen, Corey J. Langer, Charu Aggarwal, Melina E. Marmarelis Incidentally discovered lung cancer in explanted lungs at the time of lung transplantation: Management and outcomes. , J Clin Oncol: 2026