Dr Janet Graham

Dr Graham is a consultant medical oncologist at the Beatson West of Scotland. She treats colon, pancreas, upper GI and hepatobiliary cancers and her main focus is on maximising patient opportunities to take part in clinical trials.

The GI team consists of 17 consultant oncologists, 5 specialist nurses and a number of staff grades and trainees and Dr Graham is the GI team lead. She is GI trainer for medical oncology Specialist registrars and is lead trainer for CMT’s. 

She is the Chief Investigator of PRIMUS 001 which is part of the PRECISION PANC research platform and Principle Investigator on a number of clinical trials spanning Phase I to Phase III. 

Early in her consultant career she was awarded an NRS fellowship to support her work in clinical trials and she continues as a Senior Investigator and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Glasgow.

Dr Graham has been integral to a number of service developments within the UK including the introduction of RAS, BRAF and MSI testing and also availability for drugs such as EGFR inhibitors, aflibercept and lonsurf for patient’s. She is on the medical advisory board of a number of charities including Bowel Cancer UK.

Dr Graham is a Specialist advisor to the SMC including the PACE process and is currently acting lead for the West of Scotland Colorectal MCN.  She co-leads the Glasgow Colorectal Collaborative initiative along with Professor Owen Sansom – a group whose ultimate aim is to bring together preclinical, translational and clinical colorectal researchers. Dr Graham chairs the adjuvant and advanced sub group of the NCRI colorectal group were she has an active role in ensuring the colorectal portfolio has as many trials as possible for patients across the spectrum of the disease.