Biography
Professor Duane is a Consultant Radiation Oncologist at St. Luke's Radiation Oncology Network (SLRON), St. Luke's Hospital and St James's Hospital and a Clinical Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. She completed the Radiation Oncology National Training Programme in Ireland in 2014 and a 4-year Medical Research Council Clinical Oncology Research Fellowship in the UK. She holds a DPhil degree in breast cancer radiotherapy from the University of Oxford and her clinical research focuses on improving the quality of care received by patients with breast cancer. She is currently Co-Chair of the Breast Radiotherapy Group at the St. Luke's Radiation Oncology Network, Co-Chair of the Cancer Trials Ireland Breast Disease Specific Site Group, a member of the Cancer Trials Ireland Safety Monitoring Committee, a member of the National Cancer Control Programme Breast Radiotherapy Guidelines Group and Proton Therapy Group. She is also member of the Michael Moriarty Research Laboratory Scientific Committee at St. Luke's Hospital. She has a keen interest in medical education and enjoys supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is currently Academic Teaching Lead for Radiation Oncology on the St. James's Hospital campus, the Radiation Oncology National Training Programme Co-Ordinator, RCSI and directs the St. Luke's Hospital Multidisciplinary Transition Year Programme at St. Luke's Hospital, Rathgar.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
- Walls GM, O'Connor J, Harbinson M, Duane F, McCann C, McKavanagh P, Johnston DI, Giacometti V, McAleese J, Hounsell AR, Cole AJ, Butterworth KT, McGarry CK, Hanna GG, Jain S., The Association of Incidental Radiation Dose to the Heart Base with Overall Survival and Cardiac Events after Curative-intent Radiotherapy for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Results from the NI-HEART Study, Clinical Oncology (R Coll Radiol), 36, (2), 2024, p119 - 127Journal Article, 2024, DOI
- NCCP Breast Cancer Guideline Development Group (Radiation Oncology Subgroup), National Clinical Guideline Treatment of Patients with Breast Cancer: Radiation Oncology, National Cancer Control Programme, May, 2023Report, 2023
- B.K. Linderholm, A. Valachis, V. Gordon Flote, P. Poortmans, O. Kaidar Person, E. Niligal-Yam, S. O'Reilly, F. Duane, T. Marinko, M. Ekholm, A. Andersson, J. Bergqvist, T. Foukakis, M. Kadum, K. Kulbacka-Ortiz, A. Nilsson-Ek, L. Visani, D. Lundstedt, I. Meattini, Treatment of oligometastatic breast cancer (OMBC): A randomised phase III trial comparing stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) and systemic treatment with systemic treatment alone as first-line treatment - TAORMINA, ESMO Open, ESMO, 2023, pp1;8(1).Conference Paper, 2023, DOI
Research Expertise
Medical, health and life sciences, Cancer,