Professor Andrew Tutt

Professor Andrew Tutt is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist specialising in breast cancer. He is based at Guy’s Hospital Breast Unit but also performs private work and is a Professor of Oncology at King’s College London School of Medicine.

He qualified in medicine in 1990 and went on to complete his postgraduate training at a number of hospitals around the UK. After completing his clinical oncology training at the Royal Marsden Hospital London, he was awarded a Doctoral Research Training Fellowship at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, where he gained his PhD in cancer biology.

Professor Tutt is actively involved in clinical research and has published a number of breast cancer research papers. His main areas of research include the ‘triple negative’ and BRCA1 and BRCA2 associated breast cancers. He has led a number of international trials of drug therapies and research programmes in these areas.

He is often asked to speak at major European and North American Cancer Medicine conferences. He is a member of the St Gallen International Breast Cancer Consensus Panel that develops guidelines for the treatment of breast cancer. He is also part of a UK team that trial new techniques in breast radiotherapy.