Associate Professor Colin Tang is a radiation oncologist with subspecialty interests in stereotactic radiation for prostate, lung, liver, pancreas and secondary brain cancer. He received his Radiation Oncology specialist qualification in 2005 after training at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia and Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in Queensland.
A/Prof Tang underwent further specialist fellowship at the Odette Cancer Centre, affiliated with the University of Toronto, Canada, specifically focusing on prostate cancer and stereotactic radiotherapy. He was a consultant at Calvary Mater Newcastle in New South Wales from 2008 prior to taking up a consultant position at Perth’s Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital from 2013.
He was involved in the implementation of the first CyberKnife® Machine in Australia in 2014 and is one of the lead consultants providing this service to patients. An active member of several multidisciplinary teams, he is currently an investigator on several randomised trials, and on the Quality Assurance Committees for Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG) trials, Colin has multiple peer-reviewed publications.
