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First Alumni Evening Faculty of Health & Social Care Professor Gordon C Wishart Visiting Professor of Cancer Surgery Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge Breast Unit Job Description • Consultant Breast & Endocrine Surgeon • Director of Breast Services at Cambridge Breast Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital. • Associate Lecturer at Cambridge University • Visiting Professor of Cancer Surgery, Anglia Ruskin University Training MB ChB FRCS I FRCS II (Edinburgh) (Glasgow) (Glasgow) July 1983 Jan 1986 May 1987 MD (Edinburgh) June 1992 FRCS III (Intercollegiate) Jan 1995 FRCS MA June 2001 July 2006 (Eng.) (Cantab.) Cambridge Breast Unit Multidisciplinary Team 10 year all-cause survival probability 80.3% (77.1%, 83.3%) at mean age at diagnosis of 59.1 years and mean NPI of 4.22 10 year all-cause survival probability at mean age of diagnosis 59.1 years EPG 89.4% (87.6%, 91.2%) GPG 89.4% (87.6%, 91.2%) MPG1 87.0% (84.8%, 89.2%) MPG2 69.7% (65.2%, 74.2%) PPG 59.1% (53.5%, 64.7%) VPG 33.5% (26.9%, 40.0%) Cambridge Breast Cancer Research Unit • • • • £2 million raised from charitable donors Opened August 2009 Clinical research Supports translational research programme • Consulting rooms, imaging rooms, laboratory, meeting rooms. Clinical studies • Diagnostics: Infrared imaging, BT blood test, elastography, tomosynthesis, axillary assessment of axilla • Neoadjuvant chemo: NeoTanGo, Artemis • Neoadjuvant endocrine: MONET, Artist • RT: IMPORT Low, mammosite • Targeted therapy: persephone Prognostic and predictive breast cancer biomarkers Research programmes • • • • • • Genetic epidemiology of predisposition and survival Molecular classification, prognostic and predictive markers Molecular pathology Adult breast stem cell programme Systemic and radiation therapy clinical trials Cancer imaging for improved diagnosis and response to therapy monitoring • Therapy monitoring with CTCs • Novel therapeutics (drug development) ARU Research Opportunities • Use HRRL for tissue processing and storage for patients in neoadjuvant therapy studies • Aid recruitment to clinical trials in Essex • Research nurse training/appointment • BORIS • Access to research meetings, research away days in Cambridge • Joint projects