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Mount Vernon Cancer Centre
A long-established specialist cancer centre north-west of London, historically home of the Gray Laboratory for radiobiology.
Overview
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in Northwood, Middlesex, is a specialist non-surgical cancer centre run by East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, providing radiotherapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and brachytherapy for a population spanning north-west London, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. Its site was home to the Gray Laboratory, one of the world's leading radiobiology laboratories, and it retains a strong research tradition in radiotherapy trials, including landmark UK breast and prostate radiotherapy fractionation studies, together with the Paul Strickland Scanner Centre for imaging research. Plans to move the centre to a new host and site have been under NHS review.
Location
Northwood, GB
Type
cancer center
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#379 · 16 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 16 from 8 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-16.
Matched to Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, including child institutions. 128 works · 2,968 citations · 79% open access · 18% clinical trials · 3% reviews.
Oncology works per year
232022
262023
392024
182025
222026
Most works
- Paul Nathan15 works
- Rob Glynne‐Jones13 works
- Paul Lorigan11 works
- Juan Ignacio Arrarás10 works
- Célèste Lebbé10 works
- Teresa Young10 works
- Aruni Ghose10 works
- Marieke van Leeuwen9 works
- Véronique Bataille9 works
- Marcia Hall9 works
Most cited
- Radiotherapy trials
- Brachytherapy
- Imaging research (Paul Strickland Scanner Centre)
Martin Armstrong
Chief Executive, East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust (Mount Vernon Cancer Centre)
NHS managementHospital leadership
NHS chief executive who leads East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, the trust that runs Mount Vernon Cancer Centre in Northwood.
Paul Nathan
Consultant Medical Oncologist, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre, London
Uveal melanomaMelanomaRenal cell carcinoma
Led the tebentafusp trial, the first treatment ever to extend survival in metastatic uveal melanoma.
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