Dr. Thankamma Ajithkumar

Dr Thankamma Ajithkumar is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He qualified in medicine from Trivandrum Medical College, India. After this, he undertook his research fellowship in the Royal Marsden Hospital, London followed by speciality training in Clinical Oncology in the Eastern Deanery before becoming a Consultant Clinical Oncologist Bristol Oncology Centre in 2006. He moved back to East Anglia in 2009 as a Consultant in Clinical Oncology at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals and subsequently to Cambridge in 2014; where he currently practices.

Dr. Ajithkumar is very keen in the field of research, with his main research interest in optimising the combination of radiotherapy with novel agents in hepato-pancreatico-biliary tumours to improve clinical outcomes. Dr Ajithkumar is the radiotherapy research lead for the Eastern Cancer Research Network.

Dr. Ajithkumar is the lead editor of three oncology text books :Specialist training in Oncology (Elsevier), Oxford Desk Reference in Oncology, and Oxford Case histories in Oncology and is the lead author of the upcoming text book, Oxford Specialist Handbook in Oncology-Radiotherapy planning.

• Haematology
• Radiotherapy
• Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR)

• Blood Cancer
• Gastrointestinal Cancer