Jonathan Waxman (oncologist)

Jonathan Hugh Waxman OBE (born 1951),[1] founder and president of Prostate Cancer UK,[2] is emeritus Professor of Oncology at Imperial College London,[3][4] and author of four novels including The Elephant in the Room.

After qualification as a doctor he worked briefly in Cambridge before returning to the capital and finding employment in North London Teaching hospitals.

In 1981 Waxman embarked upon post-graduate research at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, beginning by studying the effects of chemotherapy on fertility in cancer patients.

He was the first clinician in Europe to report the clinical effects of this new medicine which, 30 years on, is still the drug of first choice in the treatment of patients with prostate cancer.

Prostate Cancer UK is a beneficiary of the Movember Appeal, a multinational organisation dedicated to improving men's health.

[11] Waxman was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to prostate cancer awareness and treatment.