Dr Alison Birtle is currently working as a Consultant Clinical Oncologist for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She undertook her general medical and specialist registrar oncology training at Charing Cross and Westminster Hospitals in London, UK. Her MD Thesis was completed at the Institute of Urology, University College London, and the Academic Urology Unit, Royal Marsden Hospital. She specializes in chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and radiotherapy of urologic tumors including prostate, testicular, and bladder tumors. She is a member of the NCRI prostate clinical study group and bladder clinical study group and leads on phase II and III studies of systemic therapy in urologic cancers.
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In focus
Next-generation sequencing: Emerging biomarkers in thyroid and NSCLCs
ctDNA and bladder cancer: Current understanding and beyond
ROS1 fusion-positive NSCLC
NSCLC driver mutations: Discussing the importance of RET, ALK and ROS1 alterations in NSCLC
Early-stage NSCLC management: Surgery, targeted treatment and immunotherapy
ALK fusion-positive NSCLC: International approaches to management
RET fusion-positive NSCLC: Informing on the use of pralsetinib for patients with RET fusion-positive, advanced NSCLC
COVID-19 & cancer
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