Dr Mehmet Sen
Dr Mehmet Sen completed his medical school training in Izmir and specialist training in radiation oncology in Istanbul University, Turkey. He later subspecialised in head and neck cancer and set up a multidisciplinary academic unit in 1991 in Dokuz Eylul University Medical School in Izmir. He was appointed as Professor of radiation oncology in 2001and was clinical lead for the head and neck cancer unit until he left his post.
He chaired the Turkish Oncology head and neck cancer studies group between 2001- 2003 and also contributed to ESTRO teaching courses as a teacher in the Evidence Based Oncology course between1999-2004.
He moved to the UK in 2004 joining Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust as a Consultant Clinical Oncologist and Honorary senior lecturer and was the lead for the nonsurgical head and neck team (2008-2019) in Leeds Cancer Centre
He contributed to the NCRI head and neck clinical studies group as a member (2006-2015) and then chair of the systemic treatments and radiotherapy subgroup (2006-2011). During this time notable achievements included establishing links between national and international research groups and chaired the EORTC Head and Neck-radiotherapy subgroup (2011-2015)
His head and neck cancer research interest includes improving outcomes by combined treatments and evaluation of treatment efficacy and impact on quality of life of patients to understand the nature of disease to individualise treatments. He believes multidisciplinary patient centred approach is the key component of head and neck cancer management. He is currently contributing to on-going national randomised clinical trials as local PI, National lead, TMG member and as safety chair. He is chair of the steering committee of the annual York head and neck cancer national one day educational event. He became chair of BAHNO International committee in 2019 and council member representative of Clinical Oncology in 2021.
