Southern Symposium

Professor Kenneth Fearon

Professor Of Surgical Oncology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland

Professor Fearon obtained his medical degree from the University of Glasgow, UK in 1982. He was the CRC Clinical Research Fellow in Medical Oncology at Glasgow University between 1983-1986 and was awarded his MD Thesis entitled ‘Mechanisms and Treatment of Cancer Cachexia’ in 1987. He obtained his FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons and Physicians in 1988. He then joined the Department of Surgery, Edinburgh University, UK and was appointed Honorary Consultant Colorectal Surgeon in 1993 and Professor of Surgical Oncology in 1999. Professor Fearon is an expert in cancer cachexia. His research interests include human nutrition and metabolism, nutritional pharmacology, mechanisms of cancer cachexia, and novel treatments for cancer cachexia. Several translational studies have been conducted by his group to examine the relationship between inflammation and cancer cachexia. His research also focuses on development of early biomarkers (genome, transcriptome and proteome) and novel outcome measures. Professor Fearon has led several prospective, randomized intervention trials in cancer cachexia. Professor Fearon has published more than 200 original articles and more than 60 chapters and reviews. He has received awards from the Nutrition Society, SCWD and ESPEN for his work on cancer cachexia.

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