Dr. Arina Ganeles

Dr. Ganeles comes from a family of four generations of physicians, including her great great grandfather, who was a physician in Russia.

She has been practicing oncology for more 30 years, including practicing on the Monterey Peninsula since 2001 as part of Monterey Bay Oncology/Pacific Cancer Care. She has been practicing general oncology with a specific emphasis on breast cancer and gynecological malignances.

After graduating from First Leningrad Medical Institute, Dr. Ganeles did a residency at UMASS-Memorial Health Care in Massachusetts and a fellowship at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston.

After clinical training she became a medical oncologist in Russia specializing in bone marrow transplantation; she even treated patients who went through the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster.

Since 1991, Dr. Ganeles has been in the United States, where her medical career began as a research assistant in the Department of Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

After graduation from her fellowship in Boston, she moved to Monterey, taking over a practice of a retiring physician. Since 2001 she has been a partner in Monterey Bay Oncology/Pacific Cancer Care.

Dr. Ganeles was certified in medical oncology in 2004 by the American Board of Internal Medicine, is fluent in Russian and specializes in hematology and medical oncology.

Dr. Arina D.  Ganeles

Personalized Oncology Care of Monterey Bay

Specialties: Hematology, Medical Oncology, Hematology/Oncology