Samuel U. Takvorian, MD, MS
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: Harvard Medical School
  • Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

What my patients think about me

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662 reviews

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November 2025
knows his stuff
November 2025
very professional
October 2025
great experience
October 2025
total confidence in doctor

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My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

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

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Abigail Pepin, Abigail Doucette, Neha Vapiwala, Vivek Narayan, Samuel Takvorian, Sophia O’Brien, David Mankoff, Philipose Mulugeta, Neil K. Taunk Safety of the Combination of External Beam Radiotherapy with 177Lu-PSMA-617 in Patients with Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) , The Journal of Nuclear Medicine: 2025


Crawford TB, Tayeb M, Barrett E, Al-Saleem T, Kondam P, Hausler R, Symecko H, Orr C, Wolfe C, Mann D, Spielman K, Wong G, Haas N, Narayan V, Robinson K, Takvorian S, Wong YN, Sokolova A, Montgomery RB, Menendez C, Kelley MJ, Aiello LB, Garraway IP, Domchek SM, Maxwell KN. Pathogenic germline variants in a racially diverse real-world cohort of prostate cancer patients , medRxiv: 2025


Gabriel Aleixo, Julianne Ani, William J. Ferrell, Ravi Bharat Parikh, Peter Gabriel, Efrat Dotan, Simone Fernandes dos Santos Hughes, Ramy Sedhom, Samuel U. Takvorian Practical geriatric assessment (PGA) implementation strategies and correlative evaluations (PACE-70): A hybrid implementation-effectiveness study in 3 community practices. , 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL: 2025


Gabriel Aleixo, Tej Patel, Julianne Ani, Will J. Ferrell, Efrat Dotan, Samuel U. Takvorian, Grant R. Williams, Ravi B. Parikh, Ramy Sedhom “Start low, go slow,” a strategy to tailor treatment dosing in older or vulnerable adults with advanced solid cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis , Journal of Geriatric Oncology: 2025


Seiichi Villalona, Carlos Chavez Perez, E. Paul Wileyto, Samuel Takvorian, Peter Gabriel, Abigail Doucette, Daniel Blumenthal, Robert Schnoll Predictive Value of Individual Behavioral Risk Factors for New Mood-Related Psychiatric Disorder After Diagnosis of Cancer , Psycho-Oncology: 2024


Schnoll R, Bekelman JE, Blumenthal D, Asch DA, Buttenheim AM, Chaiyachati KH, Domchek SM, Fayanju OM, Gabriel P, Jenssen BP, Leone FT, McCarthy AM, Nathanson KL, Parikh RB, Rendle KA, Shelton RC, Shulman LN, Takvorian SU, Ware S, Wileyto EP, & Beidas RS Using the Translational Science Benefits Model to assess the impact of the Penn Implementation Science Center in Cancer Control , Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 8(1): 2024


J. Wainwright, H. Toneff, J. Kalman, M. Mengesha, A. Strazinsky, W. Song, S. Beucker, E.P. Wileyto, C. Johnston, C. Cambareri, D. Yarosh, A. Blauch, D. Pucci, L.A. Jacobs, J.E. Bekelman, S.E. Kimmel, L.N. Shulman, S. Takvorian, K. Rendle Acceptability and Feasibility of Integrating A Chatbot into Routine Lung Cancer Care: Patient and Clinician Perspectives , Journal of Thoracic Oncology, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, 19(10): 2024


Montgomery A, White J, Blumenthal D, Mengesha M, O’Brien C, Ragusano D, Beidas RS, Schnoll R, Bekelman JE, Parikh RB, Takvorian SU, & Rendle KA Patient and clinician perspectives on the timing of serious illness conversations in oncology , ASCO Quality Care Symposium, San Francisco, CA: 2024


Miles Hsu, Xinhe Shan, Rebecca Zhang, Eva Berlin, Arun Goel, Manuj Agarwal, Yu-Ning Wong, John P. Christodouleas, David J. Vaughn, Vivek Narayan, Samuel U. Takvorian, Neha Vapiwala, Austin R. Pantel, Naomi B. Haas Prostate Cancer Recurrence: Examining the Role of Salvage Radiotherapy Field and Risk Factors for Regional Disease Recurrence Captured on (18)F-DCFPyL PET/CT , Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, 22(4): 2024


Erin Welch, Marie A. Guerraty, Biniyam G. Demissei, Naomi Haas, Samuel Takvorian, Ravi B. Parikh, David J. Vaughn, Daniel Pryma, David A. Mankoff, Bonnie Ky, Vivek Narayan Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction in Men with Prostate Cancer Receiving Androgen-Deprivation Therapy , Clinical Genitourinary Cancer, 22(4): 2024


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