Dr Constantine Alifrangis Consultant Profile
Dr Costi Alifrangis is a Consultant Medical Oncologist specialising in the treatment of urological cancers including prostate, bladder, penile and testicular cancer.
He obtained his medical degree at Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ medical school, where he was awarded the university Gold Medal for Medicine. He undertook postgraduate medical training in London and Brighton and trained in oncology on the Imperial College London medical oncology rotation. As an Academic Clinical Fellow at Hammersmith Hospital, he worked on hormone resistance in prostate cancer and subsequently secured a Wellcome Trust fellowship to undertake and complete a PhD at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge on Cancer Genomics and therapeutics. He has published original research in journals, such as the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and was awarded the Sylvia Lawler Prize by the oncology section of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Dr Alifrangis is also a Consultant Medical Oncologist and Honorary Associate Clinical Professor at University College London Hospital, and has published over 140 articles, abstracts and book chapters relating to urological cancers. His research has focused on novel therapeutics including personalised approaches to cancer treatment. He has received funding from the Biomedical Research Council and is Principal (Lead) Investigator in a number of late-phase clinical trials of investigational and therapies in these cancers, including novel chemo-immunotherapy trials in prostate, bladder and penile cancer.
He has an ongoing interest in the treatment of patients with rare and complex genitourinary cancers and has built a national and international referral practice in the NHS and privately. He has been a member of the UK NCRI groups for testicular and penile cancer and recently been on the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Clinical guidelines committee and has co-authored the European guidelines on penile and urethral cancer.
Dr Alifrangis’s primary focus is on providing excellent and compassionate care to his patients. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and running.
Areas of expertise
- Prostate cancer
- Testicular cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Penile cancer
- Rare genitourinary cancers