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Mr Andrew J Hayes
Mr Andrew J Hayes MA (Oxon) PhD (Lond) FRCS (Gen)
Consultant Surgeon and Surgical Oncologist
Sarcoma Unit and Melanoma Unit
Royal Marsden Hospital
Mr Andrew Hayes is a Consultant General Surgeon and Surgical Oncologist on the Sarcoma Unit and the Melanoma Unit. He qualified at Oxford University and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London and undertook his surgical training in London and a PhD in Washington DC.
Mr Hayes has a specialist practice in soft tissue sarcoma and advanced melanoma and operates on over 150 cases of sarcoma and 150 of cases of advanced malignant melanoma a year. Mr Hayes leads the Isolated Limb Perfusion programme which provides a national service for regional chemotherapy for patients with advanced limb malignancy,
Mr Hayes is Head of the RMH Melanoma Unit, Chair of the South West London Sarcoma Tumour Working Group, and a National Committee Member of the British Association of Surgical Oncology and the British Sarcoma Group.
In 2002 Mr Hayes was awarded a Hunterian Professorship for his research into angiogenesis as a therapeutic approach for cancer. He has published widely on sarcoma and melanoma and has an active laboratory research interest in new therapies for extremity malignancies using Isolated Limb Perfusion.
Professor Hans-Ulrich Steinau
Professor Hans-Ulrich Steinau is the Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery and the Director of the Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns, Hand Centre, Sarcoma Reference Centre, at the BG University Hospital “Bergmansheil”, Bochum.
Professor Steinau is a consultant plastic surgeon. He specialises in hand surgery and soft tissue sarcoma. He has published over 240 peer-reviewed articles and has contributed chapters to books on plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery.