A long career in gastrointestinal oncology

摘要

John R Zalcberg speaks to Stella Bennett, Commissioning Editor: Professor John Zalcberg was the Director, Division of Cancer Medicine, at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia for 17 years. In 2014, he took up the position of Head of the Cancer Research Program in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University where he is involved in setting up a number of national clinical quality registries in cancer. After earning a Bachelor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Melbourne he did a PhD in cancer immunology. He is immediate past Chair of the Board of the Australasian Gastrointestinal Trials Group after serving in this role for over 15 years. He is the current Co-Chair of the Cancer Drugs Alliance, an organization which advocates for improved access to new cancer drugs for patients and also the Chair of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance. This organization is involved in advocating for embedding clinical research into routine clinic...