Mr Tom Cecil

About

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  Tom Cecil started as a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon in Basingstoke in 2002. He specialises in laparoscopic colorectal surgery and peritoneal malignancy surgery.
  
  In 2003 he set up the Peripherique laparoscopic training courses with laboratory skills courses, clinical workshops and hands on clinical immersion courses. He ran one of the Lapco training centres for laparoscopic colorectal surgery. He has been on the faculty of National MDT/TME training programme, the Danish MDT laparoscopic training programme and the European laparoscopic masterclass.
  
  He was Chair of the CSCCN Colorectal Network Site specific group and Lead Clinician for the International Colorectal Cancer Improvement programme. He has lectured extensively, nationally and internationally on laparoscopic colorectal surgery and peritoneal malignancy and presents and publishes on both subjects. He is on the Medical Advisory Board of Bowel Cancer UK.
  
  He trained at Southampton University and did junior doctor rotation in the South of England. He was privileged to have a brief period working in MEDSTAR trauma centre in Washington DC and later a short time with Joel Leroy in Strasbourg learning laparoscopic colorectal surgery. His research was split between the Portsmouth local co-ordinator and endoscopist for the UK once-only flexible sigmoidoscopy screening trial and a DM on genetic polymorphisms and predisposition to adenomatous polyps.
  

• Clinical interests icon plus

  • Rectal Bleeding
  • Colorectal Cancer
  • Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery
  • Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
  • Pseudomyxomas Peritonei
  • Colonoscopy
  • Colon Cancer
  • Cytoreductive surgery + heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS + HIPEC)
  • Sugarbaker Procedure
  • Anterior Resection
  • Peritoneal tumours
  • Mesothelioma