Prof Jeffrey Tobias

Career: SHO Bart's, UCH and Hammersmith Hosp 1972-73, fell in med (oncology) Harvard Med Sch 1974-75, sr registrar Royal Marsden Hosp and Inst of Cancer Research 1976-80, conslt clinical oncology UCH and Middlesex Hosps London 1981-, clinical dir Meyerstein Inst of Oncology 1992-97, prof of cancer med UCL Med Sch 2002-; hon sec Br Oncological Assoc 1985-90, chm UK Co-ordinating Ctee for Cancer Research Head and Neck Working Pty 1989-, pres Assoc of Head and Neck Oncologists of Great Britain 1995-97; memb: MRC Working Pty in Gynaecological and Brain Tumors, Cancer Research Campaign Working Pty in Breast Cancer (chm New Studies Sub-Gp), Cncl Royal Coll of Radiologists 1991-95; chair Cancer Research Campaign Educn Ctee; tstee and memb Cancer Research UK; Cncl fell American Soc for Therapeutic Radiology; FRCP, FRCR

Books and Publications: Primary Management of Breast Cancer (1985), Cancer and its Management (with R L Souhami, 1986, 5 edn 2005), Cancer - A Colour Atlas (1990), Cancer: What Every Patient Needs to Know (1995), Current Radiation Oncology Vols 1 - 3 (1994-98), Breast Cancer: New Horizons in Research and Treatment (2000), Informed Consent in Medical Research (with L Doyal, 2001); author of original articles in med jls, features and editorials in BMJ and The Lancet