Penn Medicine Provider
Medical Oncology
Parul Agarwal, MD
4.9
(236)
Accepting new patients
Abramson Cancer Center Perelman 2nd Floor West

About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hematology-Oncology)

Education and training

  • Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
  • Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  • Fellowship: Johns Hopkins Hospital

What my patients think about me

Average Rating
4.9

236 reviews

Comments are submitted by patients and reflect their views and opinions. The comments are not endorsed by and do not necessarily reflect the views of Penn Medicine.

April 2025
5.0
5.0
she helped us move through a difficult situation
April 2025
5.0
5.0
helpful google guidance
April 2025
5.0
5.0
very nice person, answered all my questions told me how my procedures were going
March 2025
5.0
5.0
thorough, caring

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

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

Qualifications and experience

My research

Agarwal P, Guo M, Munjal K, Qi H, Parkinson R, Ferguson A, Mitchell C, Harrison J, Anders RA, Thompson ED, Wang H, De Jesus A, Zheng L, He J, Burkhart R, Narang A, George B, Jaffee EM, Yarchoan M, Laheru D, Osipov A. A phase II study of neoadjuvant GVAX and cyclophosphamide combined with nivolumab and SBRT followed by surgery in borderline resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma , Clin Cancer Res: 2025


Mohindroo C, Baydogan S, Agarwal P, Wright RD, Prakash LR, Mork ME, Klein AP, Laheru DA, Maxwell JE, Katz MHG, Dasari A, Kim MP, He J, McAllister F, De Jesus-Acosta A. Germline Testing Identifies Pathogenic/Likely Pathogenic Variants in Patients with Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors , Cancer Prevention Research, 17(7): 2024,335-342


Wilbur HC, Le DT, Agarwal P. Immunotherapy of MSI Cancer: Facts and Hopes , Clin Cancer Res, 30(8): 2024,1438-1447


Lau-Min KS, Marini J, Shah NK, Pucci D, Blauch AN, Cambareri C, Mooney B, Agarwal P, Johnston C, Schumacher RP, White K, Gabriel PE, Rosin R, Jacobs LA, Shulman LN. Pilot Study of a Mobile Phone Chatbot for Medication Adherence and Toxicity Management Among Patients With GI Cancers on Capecitabine , JCO Oncol Pract: 2024


Chen SY, Heumann TR, Agarwal P, Zheng L. The clinical application of immuno-therapeutics , Clinical Immuno-Oncology: 2024,237-288


Mohindroo C, Baydogan S, Agarwal P, Laheru D, Wright R, Prakash L, Mork ME, Klein ME, Maxwell J, Katz MHG, Dasari A, Kim MP, He J, McAllister F, De Jesus-Acosta A. Prevalence of germline variants in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. , Journal of Clinical Oncology, 41: 2023


Agarwal P, Qi H, Munjal K, Gai J, Ferguson A, Parkinson R, Harrison J, Rodriguez C, Anders RA, Thompson ED, Burkhart R, He J, Narang A, De Jesus-Acosta A, Zheng L, Jaffee EM, George B, Laheru DA, Yarchoan M, Osipov A. Overall survival (OS) and pathologic response rate from a phase II clinical trial of neoadjuvant GVAX pancreas vaccine (with cyclophosphamide) in combination with nivolumab and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) followed by definitive resection for patients with borderline resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma (BR-PDAC). , Journal of Clinical Oncology, 41: 2023


Chapin WJ, Agarwal P, DiCicco L, Palmer R, Cenou N, Chi Huang AC, Karasic TB. Phase II trial of XmAb20717 (vudalimab) in patients with advanced biliary tract cancers. , Journal of Clinical Oncology, 41(16): 2023


Christenson ES, Lim SJ, Durham J, De Jesus-Acosta A, Bever K, Laheru D, Ryan A, Agarwal P, Scharpf RB, Le DT, Wang H. Cell-free DNA Predicts Prolonged Response to Multi-agent Chemotherapy in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma , Cancer Res Commun., 2(11): 2022,1418-1425


Agarwal P, Mohamed A. Systemic Therapy of Advanced Well-differentiated Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors Progressive on Somatostatin Analogues , Curr Treat Options Oncol., 23(9): 2022,1233-1246