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Consultant in clinical oncology
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Dr Melcher is a consultant clinical oncologist at North Middlesex and Princess Alexandra Hospitals since 2006, specialising in lower GI and prostate cancers.
She obtained a first-class degree from Oxford University in psychology in 1990 and then went on to study medicine at St Mary's Hospital (now Imperial medical school).
She trained in Oncology across north and central London and became a consultant in 2006
With a keen interest in research, she is a principal investigator/co-investigator for several trials.
Dr Melcher is passionate about education and is the training programme director for clinical oncology in our region.
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Prostate, rectum and colon cancers.
502P Nivolumab, alone or with ipilimumab, for mismatch repair deficient metastatic colorectal cancer: A United Kingdom multi-centre analysis of patient outcomes.
September 2020
Annals of Oncology 31: S453
COVID-19 prevalence and mortality in patients with cancer and the effect of primary tumour subtype and patient demographics: a prospective cohort study | Request PDF.
August 2020.
The Lancet Oncology 21(10)
DOI:10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30442-3
(PDF) Mortality Among Adults With Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy or Immunotherapy and Infected With COVID-19.
February 2022
JAMA Network Open 5(2): e220130
DOI:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0130
BACCHUS: A randomised non-comparative phase II study of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC).
September 2018
Heliyon 4(9): e00804
Dr Melcher has an interest in upper and lower gastrointestinal tumours and urological tumours.