Dr Tsien Fua

Dr Tsien Fua is a staff head and neck radiation oncology specialist at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.  He graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1999 and completed specialist training in radiation oncology at Peter Mac in 2008 and a fellowship at the BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada in 2009.  He is the current head of the Head and Neck Radiation Oncology service at Peter Mac and has served on the executive committee of the Australia and New Zealand Head and Neck Cancer Society (ANZHNCS) since 2014 and is a member of the Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology (TROG) Head and Neck Subspecialty group.

Dr Fua was the scientific committee co-chair for the ANZHNCS meeting in Melbourne in 2013.  His interests include reducing the toxicities of head and neck radiotherapy treatment and evaluating the management of early stage oropharyngeal cancer with TORS and RT, being principle investigator in a prospective phase II study addressing this.