Speaker Details

Elizabeth Bancroft

Nurse Consultant in Oncogenetics Research, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Liz Bancroft is a Nurse Consultant in Oncogenetics Research at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Associate Honorary Faculty at The Institute of Cancer Research in London UK. She is also the Chief Nurse at the North Thames Genomic Medicine Service.

Liz established and leads a nurse-led prostate cancer genetic risk clinic at the Royal Marsden, providing the ideal setting to translate novel genetic technologies for prostate cancer risk-management into clinical practice. This specialist clinic is the first of its kind nationally, receiving referrals from all over the UK. She holds an NIHR Senior Clinical Research Practitioner Award and leads a programme of research looking at the psychosocial aspects of integrating genetics into the prostate cancer screening and treatment pathway.

Liz holds a number of grants for research into the early detection of prostate cancer in individuals at higher-risk and has sat on NIHR funding committees. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and presented nationally and internationally. She is the chief investigator at the Royal Marsden for a number of academic research studies. She is the Clinical Lead for PPI/E within the NIHR BRC Early Diagnostics Theme Group at RM/ICR and sits on the RM PPI/E Research Steering Group. Her particular interest is increasing engaging with groups underrepresented in research.