Doctor Raphael Pfeffer

Raphael Pfeffer graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He completed his residency in the oncology department of Hadassah Medical Center. He then trained abroad: he earned a first degree in immunology at the University College London medical school and spent two years in radiation therapy at a Harvard academic clinic in Boston. After completing these fellowships he taught for six months at the clinical hospital of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Doctor Pfeffer is a member of many professional societies, including:

• American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO);
• European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO);
• American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO);
• American Association for Cancer Research (AACR);
• International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRS).

Raphael Pfeffer currently heads the Oncology Institute at Assuta Medical Center in Tel Aviv. In his many years of practice the doctor often uses methods that combine radiation and chemotherapy. The main goal of treatment is to preserve the patient's healthy organs as much as possible, thereby ensuring a familiar way of life.

Doctor Pfeffer successfully combines clinical work with research and teaching. For many years he has given a lecture course in clinical oncology at Tel Aviv University. A participant in several international programs, his research focuses on finding new possibilities in radiation treatment as well as combined therapies for cancer. Raphael Pfeffer has more than 80 scientific publications resulting from this research.

• breast cancer;
• malignant tumors of the prostate;
• cancers of the lungs;
• brain cancer;
• tumors of the head and neck, and more.