Prantik Das - Uro-Oncologist | East Midlands Urology

Dr Prantik Das is a Clinical Oncologist specialising in the treatment of all urological, oesophageal, stomach, and neuroendocrine tumours.

Dr Prantik Das can provide remote consultations for patients across the UK. If you require radiotherapy, Dr Das works with GenesisCare who have 14 centres across the UK and will provide transport for patients to attend their treatment. For in person consultations, these take place at Nuffield Derby or Derby Private Health.

Dr Prantik Das completed basic medical training in the UK and awarded MRCP in 2009. He subsequently joined Clinical Oncology training programme in Northern Ireland deanery. During his training, he obtained a postgraduate diploma from the University of London in Oncology. After completion of his FRCR in 2013, he went for Proton Therapy Fellowship at University of Florida, USA.

He is very interested in hypofractionated radiotherapy as a means to escalate radiation dose to tumours and improve outcomes for men with locally advanced prostate cancer. This radiotherapy can be optimally delivered with High Dose Rate brachytherapy or with Image Guided Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR).

Dr Das has been actively involved in various national and international clinical trials. He is a first author of a number of publications in peer-reviewed journals and also worked as reviewer in international journal. He has also contributed as author of Pocket Guide to Human Tumors and Cancer by CRC press USA.