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Prostate Cancer Nexus

Silke Gillessen

Last updated: 15th Sep 2025
Published: 15th Sep 2025

Silke GillessenSilke Gillessen, MD

Silke Gillessen is the Genitourinary Cancer Systemic Therapy Research Chair at the University of Manchester, UK, and Honorary Consultant at The Christie Hospital in Manchester. She is a consultant in the Department of Oncology/Haematology at the Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland; Head of the Department of Medical Oncology and Professor at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano; and Director of the Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland (IOSI) in Bellinzona, Switzerland.

Disclosures: Consultation/speaking/travel fees from AAA International, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Astellas, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Daiichi Sankyo, InnoMedica, Ipsen, Meister-ConCept, Modra Pharmaceuticals, MSD, Myriad Genetic, Novartis, Orion, Pfizer, Roche, and Telix Pharmaceuticals. Patent for a research method for biomarker WO2009138392.

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