Title: Consultant Medical Oncologist
Specialty 1: Oncology - Medical
Specialty 1 Specialisation: Melanoma
Clinical Interests: Treatment of cancer.
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Languages Spoken: English, Greek
Regular Cromwell Clinics: Yes
Telephone Number: 020 7460 5626/7
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Year Qualified: 1967
Memberships: Fellow: Royal College of Physicians of London; Life Fellow Royal Society of Medicine. Member: Association of Cancer Physicians. Member: European Society for Medical Oncology. Member: Hellenic Society of Medical Oncology. Member: American Society of Clinical Oncology. Chairman: International Conferences on the Adjuvant therapy of Melanoma 1995-2008.
NHS Hospital: ex Hammersmith Hospitals
Additional Posts: ex-Consultant Medical Oncologist, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.
Research Interests: Biology of Cancer / Phase 2 studies - New anti-cancer drugs. Palaeo-Oncology the Antiquity of Cancer.
Published Papers: • Retsas S, Henry K, Mohammed MQ & MacRae K. Prognostic factors of cutaneous melanoma and a new staging system proposed by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC): validation in a cohort of 1284 patients. European Journal of Cancer 2002; 38:511-516.
• Retsas S. Adjuvant Therapy of Melanoma : is there a choice? Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology 2001;40:187-193
• Retsas S Sentinel Node Biopsy. The New England Journal of Medicine 1999; 340 (4):318-319.
• Retsas S, Quigley M, Pectasides D, Macrae K, Henry K.
Clinical and histologic involvement of regional lymph nodes in malignant melanoma. Adjuvant vindesine improves survival. cancer. 1994 Apr 15;73(8):2119-30.