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Dr Waqar Saleem
MB, BS, MRCP, MSc, FRCR, Consultant Clinical Oncologist
Languages spoken
Hindi, English, Punjabi, Urdu
Overview
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Specialises in
Treatments
Dr Waqar Saleem is a consultant clinical oncologist.
He has a special interest in the management of urological cancers, brain tumours, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, non-melanoma skin cancers and spinal cancer and is qualified to deliver stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy for these tumours. Dr Saleem also delivers post-operative radiotherapy for keloid scars.
He trained on the north west London training scheme, qualifying for FRCR. He obtained a masters in oncology from the Institute of Cancer Research. He treats tumours originating in the brain, spinal cord, prostate, bladder and skin.
He is an enthusiastic teacher and one of the oncology unit training leads
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Career Positions
Current position(s)
- Charing Cross
- London Cromwell Hospital
Year qualified
2002
Expertise and interests
Extreme hypofractionated external beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer - comparison of cyberknife & VMAT (MSc dissertation) Identifying palliative radiotherapy in a national radiotherapy dataset – a single centre pilot study: poster presentation at Sharing the Vision for World-class Radiotherapy, Manchester, March 2017 Classification using real-world Radiotherapy Dataset – multi-institution project; submitted to Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) conference February 2018 Prevalence of vasomotor and psychological symptoms in prostate cancer patients receiving hormonal therapy - results from a single institution experience: poster presentation at ASCO 2014 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. JCO Abstract 2014:283 Vol 32 No 4 February Supplement IMRT-SIB for treating the prostate and pelvic nodes in high risk localised and locally advanced prostate cancer: experience of first 100 patients: poster presentation at NCRI - Nov. 2014 Glynne-Jones R, Saleem W, Harrison M, Mawdsley S, Hall M. Background and current treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the anus. Oncol Ther. 2016;4(2):135-72
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