Prue Francis







Professor Prudence Francis
commenced Medical Oncology training in Australia and subsequently completed training in the USA. She spent 4 years at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In 1994 she was appointed as a Consultant Medical Oncologist at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. Since 2003 she has been the Head of the Breast Medical Oncology at Peter MacCallum. She is Vice-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Australia New Zealand Breast Cancer Trials Group (ANZ BCTG). She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Breast Cancer Study Group (IBCSG) and a member of the Breast International Group (BIG). She is a panel member on the Advanced Breast Cancer (ABC) International Consensus Panel. As a clinician researcher she has focused much of her research on randomized breast cancer trials.