Grant Stewart

Grant Stewart is Head of the Department of Surgery at the University of Cambridge, where he is Professor of Surgical Oncology. Grant has a focus on developing and promoting surgery related clinical trials and translational research. As a urological surgeon, Grant has a specific interest in optimising management of patients with initially localised renal cancer, an area of great need within the disease, he provides all modes of treatment for kidney cancer, from major open surgery to robotic minimally invasive approaches. He is particularly interested in the concepts of early detection and screening for kidney cancer (Chief Investigator of the Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial), optimised follow-up, as well as peri-surgical systemic therapy to optimise survival (i.e. NAXIVA, RAMPART and WIRE clinical trials). In order to make practice changing developments Professor Stewart has developed a range of interlinked clinical trials and translational research which are all underpinned by clinica