Rachel Swart, MD, PhD

Dr. Swart earned her medical degree from Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago in 2003. She also earned a PhD in Tumor Cell Biology from Northwestern University in the combined MD/PhD program. She went on to complete both her residency in internal medicine and her fellowship in hematology and oncology at the University of Arizona. Dr. Swart was appointed assistant professor in the section of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Arizona where she focused on treating breast cancer and focused on researching circulating tumor cells in breast cancer.

Dr. Swart joined Arizona Oncology in January of 2011. She treats a variety of malignancies but has a great interest in women’s malignancies. She is head of our Tucson division’s area breast cancer clinical trials and has developed a survivorship program/clinic.