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Last updated: 27 Apr 2020
Specialises in
- Brain/CNS
- Skin
- Urology
Offers
- Video and telephone consultations
- Home chemotherapy
About me
Dr Shaffer is a cancer specialist who uses radiotherapy and chemotherapy to treat brain tumours, skin cancer, prostate cancer, and bladder cancer.
He currently sees private patients in London and Guildford, and can treat patients in many other centres around the UK (see https://www.genesiscare.com/uk/our-centres/).
He is currently clinical lead for development of radiotherapy for skin cancer and benign disease for GenesisCare UK.
He previously worked as an NHS consultant from 2010-2019 in Guildford and Basingstoke. His brain tumour team won an award for their "excellent clinical performance". He has been Clinical Lead for Radiotherapy and Radiotherapy Development, led the development and implementation of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery programme in Surrey, and has been clinical lead for radiotherapy innovation for GenesisCare UK.
He is an expert in the use of radiotherapy for the treatment of benign conditions, and set up "The Dupuytren's Practice" to provide radiotherapy for patients with Dupuytren's and Ledderhose disease throughout the UK. He treats patients with heel pain with radiotherapy treatment for plantar fasciitis and Achilles tendonitis. He co-wrote the recent Royal College of Radiologists report on the use of radiotherapy for benign disease. He has also given evidence to NICE on this subject.
Dr Shaffer did his specialist training in London, and a Clinical Fellowship in Radiation Oncology in Vancouver, Canada. Whilst in Canada he completed a number of research projects in technical radiotherapy. Dr Shaffer has presented and been published widely in the oncology field.
Areas of interest
Brain tumour; CNS tumour; Skin cancer; keloid; Chemotherapy; Radiotherapy; Prostate cancer; Dupuytren's; Plantar fibromatosis; Ledderhose; Plantar fasciitis; Achilles Tendonitis; Plantar Fasciopathy; Achilles Tendinopathy; benign disease; bladder cancer; glioblastoma; glioma; astrocytoma; oligodendroglioma; basal cell carcinoma; BCC; squamous cell carcinoma; SCC
Medical secretaries
- Polly Heathcote
- GenesisCare UK BMI Mount Alvernia Hospital 46 Harvey Road Guildford GU1 3LX
- 01483 806018
- 01483 563597
- polly.heathcote@genesiscare.co.uk
