Dr Helen Hanson

Contact

Email: helen.hanson@stgeorges.nhs.uk

Telephone: 0208 725 0573

Secretary: Kelly Harwood

Secretary email: kelly.harwood@stgeorges.nhs.uk

Secretary telephone: 0208 725 0957

Clinical interests

Cancer Genetics

Li Fraumeni Syndrome (Hereditary TP53 mutations)

Management of Familial Breast Cancer

Paediatric Cancer Genetics

Professional profile

Dr Hanson qualified as a doctor in 2002 from Guy's, Kings and St. Thomas' Medical School and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2005 and a Fellow in 2017.  She was awarded an MD thesis in 2011 for her thesis 'Characterisation of the prevalence, penetrance and phenotype of constitutional TP53 mutations in breast cancer' undertaken at the Institute of Cancer Reserach.

She completed her Genetics Training at St. George's Hospital and Guy's Hospital and gained her CCT in Clinical Geneticst in 2012.  She was a Consultant at the Royal Marsden, before returning to St. George's in 2015.

Dr Hanson is also the secretary of the UK Cancer Genetics Group