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Neil Steven is a consultant treating people with cancer. He uses chemotherapy to treat people with colorectal carcinoma: to prevent recurrence after they have had surgery or to treat advanced metastatic disease. He uses systemic therapy for people with advanced aggressive skin cancers, mostly melanoma or Merkel cell carcinoma. In both settings, he works as part of a multidisciplinary team that highlights care for the patient and that personalises treatment where possible using biological markers of the disease. He seeks opportunities for patients to enter trials, including those set up and run by charities and the UK National Institute for Health Research and those run by the pharmaceutical industry.
Dr Steven is a clinical trialist with a particular interest in immunotherapy and in trials moving modalities from the laboratory to the clinic. He leads the strategic overview of the early phase trials portfolio for solid cancers in the CRCTU and on behalf of the Birmingham Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre.
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