Neuro oncology (brain tumours)

Our team of experts treat a high volume of brain tumours, which prepares us to take care of every patient in every situation.  Our team of experts, work together to provide our patients with care of patients with brain tumours.   We discuss all brain tumour cases in the weekly neuro-oncology multi-disciplinary (MDT) meeting. Our neur-oncology MDT meeting is linked with neuro-oncology experts in Broomfield Hospital, Basildon Hospital and Colchester. This provides an integrated neuro-oncological care to population of Essex.

Conditions we commonly treat:

• Gliomas
• Brain metastasis
• Meningiomas
• Low grade gliomas
• Other brain tumours

Treatment

Our team provide the most recent treatment in management of brain tumours. Gliolan assisted resection for malignant brain tumours provide a maximum resection of this type of aggressive brain tumours. Our theatres are equipped with intra operative ultrasonography, most recent image guidance technologies. Our team perform awake brain surgery for brain tumours.

Key staff

Neurosurgery

• Mr Jonathan Pollock, consultant neurosurgeon and skull base and neurooncology lead
• Mr Raghu Vindlacheruvu, consultant neurosurgeon and clinical lead for neurosurgery
• Mr Hu Low, consultant neurosurgeon
• Mr Nikolaos Haliasos, consultant neurosurgeon
• Mr Alireza Shoakazemi, consultant neurosurgeon
• Mr Barbar Vaqas, consultant neurosurgeon

 

Oncology

• Dr Louise Dulley, consultant oncologist
• Dr Emma Staples, consultant oncologist

Interventional neuroradiology

• Dr Sanjiv Chawda, consultant interventional neuroradiologist
• Dr Shahram Derakhshani, consultant interventional neuroradiologist
• Dr Raed Alkilani, consultant interventional neuroradiologist

Neurovascular specialist nurse

• Sister Kim Grove, extension 6745
• Sister Lindsey Lawrence, extension 6885
• Sister Kelly Gross, extension 6745

 

Whole Genome Sequencing

The Neuro-oncology service offers tissue storage and Whole Genome Sequencing. This enables the full genome of a tumour to be analysed and is a requirement for entry into some clinical trials. This is considered for all patients at our weekly Neuro-oncology Multidisciplinary Meeting- please ask your neuro-oncology team if you have any questions about this, or contact us through the contact us webpage.

Clinical trials 

We run a number of clinical trials in Neuro-oncology. Please click on the following link to find out more.