Dr. Hans van der Voet

About the Doctor / Professional

Dr Hans van der Voet is a senior consultant clinical oncologist and radiotherapy lead at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. He qualified at the University of Amsterdam Medical School in 1989 and started his radiotherapy training at The Netherlands Cancer Institute/Anthony van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam in 1990. He took a year out from training to do a clinical fellowship in bladder cancer at the Christie Hospital in Manchester from 1993. After completion of specialist training at the NCI/AvL in 1995, he returned to the Christie hospital as a senior registrar. In 1997 he took up a position as consultant clinical oncologist in Middlesbrough.

Dr Hans van der Voet specialises and manages a busy practice in urological cancers, lower gastrointestinal cancer including anal cancer and sarcoma. He was instrumental in establishing image guided radiotherapy and subsequently intensity modulated radiotherapy in Middlesbrough. He has a vast experience in the treatment of prostate cancer including stereotactic radiotherapy.

Dr Hans van der Voet also has an interest in providing radiotherapy for the treatment of early Dupuytren’s disease and has been treating patients for this condition since 2013. Dr van der Voet is a member of the Northern Cancer Alliance Radiotherapy Expert Advisory Group.