Professor Suresh Senan: controversies on radiotherapy in lung cancer

Suresh Senan (Figure 1) is Professor of clinical experimental radiotherapy at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, and vice-chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology. Following undergraduate studies at the National University of Singapore, he trained in general internal medicine. In 1988, he commenced training in radiotherapy and oncology at the Beatson Oncology Centre in the United Kingdom. He moved to Erasmus Medical Center in The Netherlands in 1994, and to the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam in 2002. His research group has been active in 4-dimensional imaging for radiotherapy planning, guideline development for imageguided radiotherapy, implementation of volumetric modulated arc therapy, clinical trials of radiotherapy combined with new agents, and comparative effectiveness research.