Lova L. Sun, MD, MSCE
Medical Oncology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 2nd Floor West
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology-Oncology) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Education and training

  • Medical School: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

What my patients think about me

Average Rating

227 reviews

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January 2026
excellent doctor who communicates very well.
December 2025
very caring and thorough
December 2025
they are the best
December 2025
she listens to the patients goals

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

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

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Chirra M, Elliott A, Shaikh H, McGrath J, El-Gamal D, Karnezis AN, Abdulla FR, Ikpeazu C, Leddon J, Sukari A, Zandberg DP, Johnson JM, Sun L, Wise-Draper TM. Molecular Profiling and Real-World Outcomes of BRAF V600E-Mutated Papillary Thyroid Cancer , Clin Cancer Res: 2026


Waliany S, Cooper AJ, Liu SV, Gautschi O, Rotow JK, Smith KER, Weber UM, Lee DH, Loong HHF, Patel JD, Pennell NA, Nagasaka M, Patel SA, Tan DSW, Solomon BJ, Kim TM, Pall G, Riess JW, Sun L, Früh M, Uy NF, Gadgeel S, Feng J, Do A, Falcon C, Leighl NB, Baik CS, Lai GGY, Ou SI, Cheung KSY, Patil T, Mansfield AS, Weiler D, Yeap BY, Wirth LJ, Gainor JF, Drilon A, Lin JJ. Landscape of Genomic Mechanisms of Resistance to Selective RET Inhibitors in RET-Altered Solid Tumors: Analysis of the RETgistry Global Consortium , Clin Cancer Res: 2026


Barsouk A, Heidlauf A, Goel K, Rushkin L, Anran Huang A, Elghawy O, Yu C, Wang L, Yang D, Kurian M, Reed-Guy L, Sun L, Singh A, Aggarwal C, Cohen RB, Langer C, Marmarelis ME. Osimertinib dose-reduction and survival in 1L EGFR-mutated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC) , Lung Cancer, 213: 2026,108936


Yegya-Raman N, Ko K, Han IS, Mitchell JD, Zou W, Ohri N, Jabbour SK, Mak RH, Robinson C, Levin WP, Barrett L, Xia C, Berlin E, Bravo P, Carli MD, Cohen R, Hutton S, Keltz J, Wang J, Fasan O, Nagda SN, Seo A, Smith AM, Sun L, Soike M, Kole AJ, Walls G, Feigenberg SJ, Ky B. Cardiac substructure radiotherapy dose and changes in physical activity and quality of life after chemoradiotherapy for NSCLC: a secondary analysis of the CLARITY prospective study , Clin Transl Radiat Oncol, 56: 2025,101070


Gobillot TA, Weinstein G, Cao A, Lee JJ, Brody RM, Basu D, O'Malley BW Jr, Farwell DG, Cannady S, Lin A, Lukens J, Gentile M, Newman JG, Chalian AA, Sun L, Lakshmipathy D, Cohen RB, Rasskeh CH, Rajasekaran K. Outcomes of HPV+ Oropharyngeal Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Following Transoral Robotic Surgery , Laryngoscope: 2025


Sannigrahi MK, Raghav L, Rich DJ, Schrank TP, Califano JA, Lukens JN, Sun L, Morgan IM, Cohen RB, Lin A, Liu X, Brown EJ, You J, Mirabello L, Mishra SK, Shimunov D, Brody RM, Pearson AT, Gimotty PA, Diab A, Jalaly JB, Basu D. Tumor-intrinsic and immune-related features associated with treatment failure in human papillomavirus-related oropharyngeal cancer , J Natl Cancer Inst, 117: 2025,1366-1376


Liu KL, Watts A, Grady CB, Liu G, Patel D, Balaratnam K, Liu SV, Montenegro GB, Nie Y, Nieva J, Herrmann A, Marrone K, Lam V, Sun F, Dowell J, Schwartzman W, Velcheti V, Fankuchen O, Ullah T, Villaruz L, Nguyen M, Weiss J, Patel S, Miller K, Iams W, Chandrasekhara K, Tompkins W, Patil T, Aisner D, Camidge DR, Hwang WT, Sun L, Marmarelis ME. Characteristics of Short-Term Survivors With ALK or ROS1-Altered Metastatic NSCLC , JTO Clin Res Rep, 6: 2025,100876


Sun L, Marmarelis ME, Aggarwal C. Management of Patients With EGFR Exon 20-Mutant Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer , J Clin Oncol, 43(13): 2025


Cohen RB, Jimeno A, Hreno J, Sun L, Wallén-Öhman M, Millrud CR, Sanfridson A, Garcia-Ribas I. Safety, tolerability, and preliminary efficacy of nadunolimab, an anti-IL- 1 receptor accessory protein monoclonal antibody, in combination with pembrolizumab in patients with solid tumors , Invest New Drugs: 2025


Barsouk A, Elghawy O, Watts A, Reed-Guy L, Tompkins W, Chandrasekhara K, Grady CB, Iams W, Sun F, Liu G, Patel D, Nieva JJ, Marrone KA, Velcheti V, Liu SV, Patil T, Weiss J, Schwartzman W, Villaruz LC, Hermann A, Aisner DL, Hwang WT, Camidge DR, Sun L, Singh AP, Cohen RB, Aggarwal C, Langer CJ, Marmarelis ME. Osimertinib vs. Afatinib in 1L therapy of atypical EGFR-mutated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (mNSCLC): A multi-institution, real-world survival analysis , Lung Cancer, 203(108551): 2025