Associate Professor Frances Duane

Professor Duane is Consultant Radiation Oncologist at the St Luke's Radiation Oncology Network, Dublin and Clinical Associate Professor at TCD, Dublin. She is involved in clinical research aiming to investigate the benefits and risks of radiotherapy for breast cancer, the development of dose-response relationships for the effects of radiotherapy, as well as projects focused on breast cancer radiotherapy optimisation. Dose response relationships for radiotherapy-related adverse effects depend on dosimetry of past regimens in conjunction with long-term clinical follow-up data. Prof Duane has published studies describing heart and cardiac substructure, lung and oesophageal dosimetry and collaborating with international research groups she has published epidemiology studies predicting risks of late effects in breast cancer survivors. Other collaborative works include studies in survivors of childhood cancers, Hodgkin lymphoma and lung cancer.