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Hesham Gayar, M.D., a board certified radiation oncologist, is Medical Director for the McLaren Proton Therapy Center, part of the Karmanos Cancer Network. He also serves as Vice President for the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG) -North American Chapter and as a board member and Steering Committee member for PTCOG worldwide. His involvement in proton therapy also includes membership on the Executive Committee of the Proton Collaborative Group Medical Societies and as a member of the World Forum on Particle Therapy Strategic Planning for 2030. He holds numerous leadership positions at McLaren, including serving as chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at McLaren Flint, Associate Medical Director of the Karmanos Cancer Institutes at McLaren Flint and Lapeer, Chairman of the Research Advisory Board at McLaren Health Care, and Chairman of the Karmanos Cancer Institute Clinical Leadership Council.
Dr. Gayar earned his medical degree from the Alexandria School of Science in Egypt and completed a residency at St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York and a fellowship at Ohio State University. He also completed training in proton therapy at the Paul Scherrer Institute. He is past president of the Board of Directors of the Genesee County Medical Society, a RTOG Principal Investigator with the Michigan State Medical Society, an American College of Surgeons Liaison Physician and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Cancer Terminator Foundation.
Prostate cancer screenings are never the highlight of Dave Gehring’s year, but he makes sure he never misses them. “I highly recommend men have physicals every year, with blood tests and a prostate check. It doesn’t take long, and it may extend your life,” Dave said. When his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) started to climb, Dave had to have testing more often. “My urologist was keeping an eye on my PSA. It was going up and down and then it stayed up for over a year and a half,” Dave said. ...
Medical News Today Hesham Gayar, M.D. , radiation oncologist and medical director of the McLaren Proton Therapy Center in Flint, part of the Karmanos Cancer Network, comments on a new clinical trial launching in the United Kingdom. The study compares treating breast cancer with traditional radiation versus proton beam therapy. Dr. Gayar explains a similar study done here in the U.S. Read the article here .
FOX 2 Hesham Gayar, M.D. , radiation oncologist and medical director of the McLaren Proton Therapy Center in Flint, part of the Karmanos Cancer Network, comments on former professional tennis player Martina Navratilova’s recent throat and breast cancer diagnoses, explains how proton therapy could treat Navratilova’s cancer and announces the new upright proton therapy treatment system coming to McLaren. Learn more about the McLaren Proton Therapy Center Get information, view patient stories and le...
Hersham Gayar, M.D., discusses the advantage of McLaren's Proton Therapy Center, which is part of the Karmanos Cancer Network.