Dr Santhanam Sundar

Dr Sundar specialises in non-surgical treatment modalities such as chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, molecular targeted therapy, advanced external radiotherapy and radioisotope therapy. Having been trained as a general oncologist, he is quite happy to treat all common cancers, such as prostate cancer, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, cancer of the ovary and cancer of the uterus.

Dr Sundar likes to see patients promptly and is a firm believer in individualised care. He is very approachable and happy to discuss each and every concern of his patients. He also strongly believes that a focus on the quality of life is very important for all cancer patients.

He has published extensively and presented studies at national and international conferences. He regularly enters patients into national and international clinical trials evaluating new and exciting anti-cancer drugs.

He is on the trial management group of RIB trial (a multicentre randomised trial of single dose radiotherapy compared to ibandronate for localised metastatic bone pain). They presented the results at the European Cancer Conference in Stockholm.

In collaboration with European investigators, the group successfully finished recruitment (sample size 800 pts, personally 44 pts) to a phase 3 multicentre randomised trial in prostate cancer. They presented early toxicity results at the European Cancer Conference in Berlin.

He is collaborating with ASAP research group at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham. They have presented the results at various conferences round the world. The full list of publications (journal papers and conference abstracts) is on the University of Nottingham website.

He is recruiting patients to a quality of life study in collaboration with Prof Eamonn Ferguson at the Dept of Psychology at the University of Nottingham. They are validating a new rating scale evaluating the side effects of androgen deprivation therapy. They presented preliminary results at the European Cancer Conference in Stockholm.