Professor John Staffurth is a Clinical Professor in Oncology in the Division of Cancer and Genetics, Cardiff University and a Consultant Clinical Oncologist specialising in bladder and prostate cancer based at Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff, Wales.
His main research interests are radiotherapy for bladder and prostate cancer and the management of castrate refractory prostate cancer. He is a member of both the WCRC’s Radiotherapy and Prostate Multi-Disciplinary Research Groups and has strong links with the Medical Engineering Research Group, School of Engineering, Cardiff University.
He is a member of the localised subgroup of the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Prostate Clinical Studies Group, a member of the national radiotherapy research group CTRad and of the national Radiotherapy Trials Quality Assurance group. He is leading or is involved in the design and delivery of multiple trials in both prostate cancer and radiotherapy. He sits on research funding committees for Prostate Cancer UK and Cancer Research UK. He sits on the Trial Management Groups and Independent Data Monitoring Committees of several trials in the UK.
He is the lead local investigator for multiple trials in Velindre including trials of novel radiotherapy approaches and novel drugs.