Dr Plowman is Senior Clinical Oncologist to St Bartholomew’s Hospital (adults) and The Hospital for Sick Children Great Ormond Street (children) with visiting duties to St Mark's Hospital for diseases of the rectum and colon and Moorfields Eye Hospital. He has been Head of Department at St. Bartholomews' from 1989-1997 and from 2000 to the present time.
Dr Plowman's special interests are directed towards improving cure rates in cancer, whilst reducing the side effects of therapy. He is an expert on both radiation therapy and chemotherapy.
In medical oncology, his main contribution has been the demonstration of the importance of adrenal sex steroid production in both breast and prostate cancer and he pioneered therapies aimed at interrupting these pathways in both diseases that have now become standard treatment across the world.
He has a long term interest in advances in the radiotherapeutic methods to treat prostate cancer – both external beam conformal and seed brachytherapy – and hormonal methods of therapy, and focussed brain and body radiotherapy techniques (gamma and cyberknife) .
He has published around 300 original research papers in clinical oncology.
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Qualifications
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1968 - 1971
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Cambridge University
Medical Sciences Tripos : 1st Class Honours
Natural Sciences Tripos : 1st Class Honours
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1971 - 1974
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Guy’s Hospital
MBBChir (Honours)
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1982
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MD Cantab
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1982
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Fellow of The Royal College of Radiologists
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1989
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Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians
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Key Published Papers
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Overviews on breast and gastrointestinal cancer (modern management) |
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Optimal methods of treating prostate cancer |
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The complications of Cancer Management (Ed P.N.Plowman)
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Stereotactically delivered Brain Radiation Therapy (Radiosurgery) and brain tumour therapies
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Paediatric Oncology (Ed P.N.Plowman, CR Pinkerton)
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Contact details
Dr Nick Plowman
14 Harmont House
20 Harley Street
London W1G 9PH
Telephone: 020 7631 1632
Email: postmaster@pnplowman.demon.co.uk
Web sites
A comprehensive resouce for patients about all forms of cancer, diagnosis and treatment, written and maintained by Dr Plowman.
Four of London’s experts in prostate cancer joined together to provide and support this web site, concentrating on information relating to prostate cancer , its diagnosis, staging and treatment options, together with facts relating to the disease itself:
