Dr Nick Plowman

MA MD FRCP FRCR

Consultant Clinical Oncologist

Oncology - clinical (radiation), Gamma Knife Surgery,

Focal radiation methods

Brain (stereotactic radiosurgery), tumours and childhood tumours, focal radiation methods.

Dr Nick Plowman is an authority on the optimal management of cancer and leads one of the country's foremost teams tackling all cancers. He is one of the country's most experienced cancer physicians and, with his clinical team, has introduced new medical therapies, which are now standard practice. He has also introduced radiation techniques that have been initially pioneering and later best standard practice. He has a particular interest in the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer.

English

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1974

The Royal College of Radiologists, The Royal College of Physicians

St Bart's/Great Ormond St

Senior Clinical Oncologist, Dept of Haematology and Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street

Bourton E, Plowman PN, Smith D, Arlett CF, Parris CN.Prolonged expression of the?-H2AX DNA repair biomarker correlates with excess acute and chronic toxicity from radiotherapy treatment. Int J Cancer. 2011 Dec 15;129(12):2928-34. 
 
Martin AGR, Cowley IR, Taylor BA, Cassoni AM, Landau D, Plowman PN. Stereotactic Radiosurgery X1X. Spinal radiosurgery - referral patterns and early experience from the first year of UK practice Brit J Neurosurg 2012: 26 (1), 53-58 
 
Smith D, Macdougal N, Sibtain A, Powell ME, Plowman PN. First quinquennial review of intensity modulated radiotherapy at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Clin Oncol. 22: 666-674. 2010 
 
Ulus-Senguloglu, G, Arlett C, Plowman PN, Parnell J, Parris CN. Artemis overexpression in human diploid fibroblast cells is associated with cellular radiosensitivity and increased apoptosis. B J Cancer Br J Cancer. 2012 Oct 23;107(9):1506-13. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2012.443 
 
GK Eminowicz, R Raman, J Conibear, PN Plowman. JLO 13172 Bevacizumab for vestibular schwannomas in neurofibromatosis type 2. The Journal of Laryngology and Otology, 2012 volume 126, issue 01, pp. 79-82. This article won the journal prize for 2012