Mutlay Sayan, MD

“If you are extending someone’s life, it should be a good life.”

Mutlay Sayan is Radiation Oncology Chief Resident at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

Sayan earned his BA and MD degrees at the University of Vermont, where he also began his research career. He has written and completed a clinical trial evaluating predictors of chronic fatigue in patients treated with partial brain radiation, and has also helped write and conduct a clinical trial of partial breast irradiation at the University of Vermont, which resulted in two important publications where Sayan is the first author.

He’s done research on combinations of medications that better beat back mesothelioma, cancer rates among Syrian refugees in eastern Turkey, and fatigue after treatment in brain cancer patients. He’s shown that a shorter, more intense course of radiation and chemotherapy doesn’t cause cardiac side effects, which could help lessen the interruption to cancer patients’ lives.Radiation Oncology Chief Resident at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey