About Annie Chan, MD
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Adult skull base tumors
- Cranial base tumors
- Head and neck cancer
- Orbit
- Proton Beam Therapy
- Sinonasal Tumors
- Skin cancer
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery
- Tumors of skull base
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- Chinese
Locations
Mass General Cancer Center: Radiation Oncology
55 Fruit St.
Lunder Building, LL3
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-5184
Medical Education
- MD, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
American Board Certifications
- Radiation Oncology, American Board of Radiology
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid NY
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Clinical and translational research in head and neck and skull base cancers.
Publications
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Partial list of recent publications:
- Russo AL, Adams JA, Weyman EA, Busse PM, Goldberg SI, Varvares M, Deschler DD, Lin DT, Delaney TF, Chan AW. Long-term outcome after proton therapy for sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2016; 95:368-376.
- Gentile MS, Yip D, Liebsch NJ, Adams AA, Busse PM, Chan AW. Definitive Proton Beam Therapy for Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of the Nasopharynx Involving the Base of Skull. Oral Oncology. 2017;65:38-44.
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Sanford NN, Lau J, Lam MB, Juliano AF, Adams JA, Goldberg SA, Lu YC, Lu HM, Liebsch NJ, Curtin HD, Chan AW. Individualization of Clinical Target Volume Delineation Based on Stepwise Spread of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma: Outcome of More Than a Decade of Clinical Experience. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2019;103(3):654-668.
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Shusharina N, Fullerton B, Adams JA, Sharp GC, Chan AW. Beam arrangement affects robustness of proton plans due to aeration change in head and neck cancers. Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics. 2019;20(3):14-21.
Reviews: Comments and Ratings
The Only Proton Therapy Site in New England
Mass General has two proton therapy centers and is the only hospital in New England to offer proton therapy on site.
A Top Hospital in America
Mass General is recognized as a top hospital on the U.S. News Best Hospitals Honor Roll for 2024-2025.