Dr Ben Shum

Ben Shum is senior medical editor at Macmillan for information about skin cancer including melanoma.

About Alexandra

Job title

Consultant Clinical Oncologist

Address

Royal Marsden Hospital, London

Specialism

Gynaecological cancers

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