Tayfun Hancılar

Tayfun Hancılar is a Turkish radiation oncologist, singer and composer born in Ordu. While treating cancer patients for many years, he also continued music at a professional level; He became known for his social projects that combine two fields.

He was born in 1962. After completing his high school education at Galatasaray High School, he studied at Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine between 1981-1987 and became a radiation oncology specialist at the same faculty. He worked in various institutions, especially Okmeydanı Training and Research Hospital; He was the head of the radiation oncology department and chief physician at Istanbul Okan University Hospital. He has been working at Istanbul Oncology Hospital since 2024.

Music

He received his folk music education from Yavuz Top and his Western music education from Timur Selçuk. His works in the pop genre include Kilit (2008), Aldırma (2010), Senile ve Engel Olamayanca (2018), When Can Body Get Out (2018) and Aşk Yokmuş (2020).

He founded a community called Life Chorus with the cancer patients he treated; The choir gave a concert in Istanbul as part of Cancer Week in April 2019, and the proceeds were donated to the Turkish Foundation for Fighting Cancer. During Cancer Week in 2021, he dedicated the song "You Are Not Alone", for which he wrote the lyrics, to patients with a project performed by eight oncologists. In 2023, he collected his humorous essays in the book Less Used Than a Doctor.