oncology and genetics

Name: Dr Alistair Ring

Academic Position: Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Oncology

Contact details

Sussex Cancer Centre,

Royal Sussex County Hospital,

Eastern Road, Brighton. BN2 5BE.

Alistair.ring@bsuh.nhs.uk

Tel: + 44 (0) 1273 696955 ex 4600

Fax: + 44 (0) 1273 623312

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Medical Sciences, Cambridge University
BM BCh, Oxford University
MRCP (UK) Part 1
MRCP (UK) Part 2
Doctor of Medicine (MD) University of London

Research focus

Breast cancer, cancer in the elderly.

Recent/Key publications

Ring A, Simcock R, Mitra S, Bloomfield D, King J, Simpson S, Sadler G, Webb A. Infusion of trastuzumab maintenance doses over 30 minutes. Annals of Oncology 2008 (in press).

Ring A, Cheong K, Watkins C, Underhill L, Meddis D, Cella D and Harper PG. A randomised crossover comparative study of electronic diary versus paper and pencil collection of quality of life data in patients with locally advanced and metastatic non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The Patient 2008;1(2):105-113.

Jones RL, Lakhani SR, Ring A, Ashley S, Walsh G and Smith IE. Pathological complete response and residual DCIS following neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast carcinoma. British Journal of Cancer 2006; 94: 358-362.

Ring A, Smith IE , Jones A, Shannon C, Galani E and Ellis PA. Chemotherapy for breast cancer during pregnancy: eighteen year experience from five London teaching hospitals. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2005;23: 4192-4197.

Ring A, Zabaglo L, Ormerod MG, Smith IE and Dowsett M. Detection of circulating epithelial cells in the blood of patients with breast cancer: comparison of laser scanning cytometry following cell filtration or immunomagnetic separation with a multiple marker real time RT-PCR assay. British Journal of Cancer 2005; 92:906-912