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Dr Selena Young
MBBS, MPallC, FRANZCR
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MBBS, MPallC, FRANZCR
Locations
Clinical interests
- Breast cancer
- Skin cancer
- Brain and central nervous system
- Lung cancer
- Metastatic cancer
- Gynaecological cancer
- Osteoarthritis
- Palliative medicine
Treatment techniques
- External beam radiation therapy (EBRT)
- Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT)
- Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT)
- Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
- Stereotactic radiotherapy (SBRT/SABR)
- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
- Deep inspiration breath hold (DIBH)
- Palliative radiation therapy
- Surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT)
- Tattoo-less breast radiation therapy
Languages
Fluent
- English
Biography
Clinical interests in breast, neurological, lung, and skin cancers plus palliative radiation therapy.
Dr Selena Young is based on the Gold Coast, attends GenesisCare treatment centres at Southport and Tugun, and consults at Beenleigh.
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 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.
More information
- 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)
