Emergencies in Oncology

Martin Scott-Brown, Specialist Registrar in Clinical Oncology, Oxford Radcliffe Trust,Roy AJ Spence, Consultant Surgeon, Belfast City Hospital; Honorary Professor, Queen's University Belfast and Honorary Professor, University of Ulster,Patrick Johnston, Professor of Oncology, Belfast City Hospital and Queen's University Belfast and Director of the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland; Dean, Belfast Medical School

Martin Scott-Brown achieved a first class degree in Biochemistry from Oxford University prior to embarking on his medical training. He was awarded a first class degree for his pre-clinical training at Cambridge University, and then returned to Oxford to complete his clinical training at the John Radcliffe Hospital. He was awarded the Oxford University Roche Prize in Laboratory Medicine, the George Pickering Prize and the Margaret Harris Memorial Prize. He completed his general medical rotations in the Oxford region before spending three months working at The Royal Marsden Hospital, London. He was appointed to the Oxford Regional Clinical Oncology Training Rotation in November 2004

Professor RAJ Spence, OBE, JP, MA, MD, FRCS, has been a Consultant Surgeon in the Belfast City Hospital for over 20 years specialising in oncological surgery. He is also Pro-Chancellor of the University of Ulster and holds Honorary Professorships in both Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster. He has approximately 200 papers and abstracts published in peer-reviewed journals and has 15 textbooks published or in press. He has given over 100 invited lectures in the USA, South Africa and the Far East. He is currently an Examiner in the Intercollegiate MRCS and FRCS in General Surgery.

Dr Patrick Johnston is Professor of Oncology and Director of the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology at Queen's University Belfast. Prior to taking up these posts Dr Johnston was a medical staff fellow and subsequently a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the USA, from 1987-1996. During that time, he received the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Technology Award from the National Cancer Institute.
Dr Johnston has published over 150 peer review articles and co-edited 3 textbooks, including Oncologic Emergencies. He sits on several national and international scientific boards and is on the editorial boards of several leading international oncology journals, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Clinical Cancer Research, The Oncologist, Clinical Colorectal Cancer and PLoS Medicine.

1. Symptoms
2. Cardiovascular Emergencies
3. Respiratory Emergencies
4. Metabolic Emergencies
5. Neurological Emergencies
6. Bone Emergencies
7. Gastrointestinal Emergencies
8. Urological Emergencies
9. Haematological Emergencies
10. Psychiatric Emergencies
11. Dermatological Emergencies
12. Cytotoxic chemotherapy related emergencies
13. Radiotherapy related emergencies
14. Moral, ethical, and legal issues
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