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Dr Fiona Castell

Consultant Clinical Oncologist

Year Qualified
1996
Qualifications
BSc, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR, MA
Specialty
Clinical Oncology

Special Interests

  • Breast cancer, health care ethics and law.

Biography

  • Dr Castell qualified from Charing Cross and Westminster Hospital in 1996
  • Intercalated BSc in Basic Medical Science and Biochemistry 1993 (Upper second)
  • MRCP 2001
  • FRCR 2005
  • MA in Health Care Ethics and Law 2011(University of Manchester)
  • General medical training in London
  • Clinical Oncology training: pan-Thames SPR rotation (East London and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust). CCST June 2008. Locum Consultant BSUH September 2008-November 2009
  • Locum Consultant Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust September 2010-September 2011
  • Locum Consultant GSTT November 2011, appointed substantively December 2011

Dr Castell shares the Breast Cancer practice at King’s with Dr A Rigg and is the lead clinician for acute oncology, responsible for developing the service. Together with other oncology consultant colleagues and a team of two acute oncology CNSs and two fellows, she provides an assessment and an advisory service for the King’s oncology patients.

She is also a senior clinical advisor for the South East London and Kent Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression service.