Dr Kate Fife

I am a Consultant Clinical Oncologist at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge where I was appointed in 2001. Together with Prof Tim Eisen, I run a large research focused renal cancer clinic, seeing approximately 130 new patients per year, making it one of the largest specialist centres for this cancer in the UK. My other interests are skin malignancies and lung cancer. I treat basal cell and squamous cell cancers of the skin and metastatic melanoma with radiotherapy and patients with rare skin cancers, cutaneous lymphomas and Kaposi’s sarcoma. I am also interested in training and am an educational supervisor.

I trained in medicine at St George’s Hospital in London, qualifying in 1987. I trained in general medicine then in oncology initially at the Royal Marsden Hospital. I carried out clinical research in HIV related malignancies whilst a research fellow at Chelsea and Westminster and Charing Cross Hospitals and completed an MD in angiogenesis related laboratory research in 1998. I completed my oncology training at the Hammersmith Hospital. Subsequently I was a locum Consultant and research fellow at the Sydney Cancer Centre and Sydney Melanoma Unit, carrying out further laboratory and clinical research.