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About me

Professor David Thomson has a substantial national and international reputation in his field of head and neck oncology. He qualified from Oxford University Medical School in 2004, with a first-class honours degree, and has a Doctor of Medicine research degree from the University of Manchester. He is an honorary MAHSC Chair and Professor at the University of Manchester and Honorary Clinical Professor of Oncology at the University of Liverpool. He is the clinical lead for head and neck cancer in Greater Manchester (2018-), and for the head and neck team at The Christie.

Professor Thomson has co-authored national and international guidelines for the treatment of head and neck cancer. He was an invited expert reviewer for the American and European Radiation Societies (ASTRO and ESTRO) guidelines for the treatment of oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal cancers. He led for ESTRO on the expert international consensus guidance for the management of head and neck cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is a member of the NHS England national proton commissioning panels for head and neck cancer and exceptional indications (2019-).

He is also the NHS Greater Manchester Cancer Clinical Lead for Research (2022-), and is Chief Investigator for major late phase multi-centre head and neck cancer clinical trials. He has given numerous invited talks on the treatment of head and neck cancer, has published work in high impact journals including Lancet Oncology and Journal of Clinical Oncology, and served as associate editor for the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics (2020-2024).

Areas of interest

Head and neck cancer; IMRT; proton beam therapy; immunotherapy; hypoxia modification; clinical trials

Medical secretaries

• Rebecca McHugh
• Christie Hospital NHS Trust 550 Wilmslow Road Manchester M20 4BX
• rebecca.mchugh2@nhs.net