Dr Selena Young
MBBS, MPallC, FRANZCR, Radiation Oncologist
Languages spoken
English
Overview
Special clinical interests in breast, neurological, lung and skin cancer and palliative care.
Dr Selena Young is based on the Gold Coast and attends GenesisCare treatment centres at Southport and Tugun. She also consults weekly at Pindara Private Hospital.
Selena qualified in Medicine from the University of Queensland in 1997 and completed radiation oncology training at various hospitals in Brisbane and Sydney in 2005. She went on to attain a master’s degree in Palliative Care from Flinders University, Adelaide and did a Fellowship in Sarcoma at Weston Park Hospital, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
In 2007 Selena commenced employment at East Coast Cancer Centre, now known as GenesisCare.
She is national lead of GenesisCare Radiation Oncology working group for spine stereotactic ablative radiation therapy (SABR) and is active member of the Queensland SABR working group.
She is Director of Training for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists radiation oncology registrars on the Gold Coast, a Senior Lecturer at Griffith University and is involved in teaching registrars and medical students.
She regularly attends the Gold Coast breast, neurological, lung, melanoma and gynaecological multidisciplinary meetings.
Professional memberships
- Australasian Society for Breast Disease (ASBD)
- International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRS)
- Cooperative Trials Group for Neuro-Oncology (COGNO)
- Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG)
- European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO)