About Karol Sikora
Karol Sikora (born 17 June 1948) is a British physician specialising in oncology, who has been described as a leading authority on cancer. He was a founder and medical director of Rutherford Health, a company that provided proton therapy services, and is Director of Medical Oncology at the Bahamas Cancer Centre. He is currently Professor of Medicine at the University of Buckingham, and a partner in and dean of Buckingham's medical school. == Early life == Karol Sikora was born in 1948. His father was a captain in the Polish Army who arrived in Great Britain during World War II and his mother was a Scottish schoolteacher. His childhood was spent in Edinburgh, Stafford and London. He attended Dulwich College on a London County Council scholarship before going to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge where he became a Foundation Scholar and obtained a double first. He received his PhD at Stanford University, where he also served a clinical fellowship. == Career == After leaving Stanford University, Sikora returned to Cambridge to direct the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. From 1985 to 1997, he served as the clinical director for cancer services at Hammersmith Hospital in London, where he established a cancer research laboratory, and was Professor of International Cancer Medicine at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, later the Imperial College School of Medicine.
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