Specialties
- Cancer
Areas of Interest
- Breast cancer
- Gastrointestinal cancer
- Urological cancer
- Lung cancer
St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside, QLD
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Level 1
St Vincent’s Northside Education Centre
St Vincent's Private Hospital Northside
627 Rode Road
Chermside QLD 4032
Biography
Dr Rick Abraham is a highly qualified medical oncologist with a special interest in treatments for cancers of the breast, lung, and gastrointestinal tract, as well as urological malignancies.
Dr Abraham graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from The University of Queensland in 1985. After completing his medical oncology training, he undertook a clinical research fellowship in the breast cancer program at the University of Toronto, investigating high dose chemotherapy treatment for high-risk patients and metastatic disease. After completing a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology where he focussed on hereditary ovarian cancer outcomes following chemotherapy, Dr Abraham returned to Brisbane as a staff specialist in oncology.Dr Abraham is actively involved in educating medical students, has been lead investigator in a number of international trials, and is a past chair of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Lung Cancer Group. He has been practising privately since 2012.
