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Spotlight 18 Endowed Professor Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Charity Foundation Professorship in Holistic Cancer Care 雅麗氏何妙齡那打素慈善基金會基金教授席 (癌症綜合治理學) Professor Anne Lee Wing-mui (李詠梅) Professor Anne Lee is the Head and Clinical Professor of the Department of Clinical Oncology at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). She is also the Chief of Service for the Clinical Oncology Center at The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital in Mainland China. Professor Lee has been vigorous in her research into nasopharyngeal cancer, and had a leading role in “revolutionising” the staging system, which is crucial not only for predicting prognoses, but also for guiding clinicians in treatment decisions. She has been instrumental in unifying different systems into the best evidence-based system that has been universally accepted and globally implemented. In addition to leading randomised clinical trials on chemoradiotherapy, Professor Lee also studied the wide scope of issues that contribute to the continual improvement in different aspects of cancer management. She was awarded the University's Sir Patrick Manson Gold Medal for her outstanding research on chemoradiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer. Professor Lee graduated from HKU with MBBS and MD degrees, and has since dedicated herself to the development of clinical oncology. For the first 36 years of her professional career, she served cancer patients in public hospitals. She built the Department of Clinical Oncology at Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital from scratch into a centre renowned for outstanding holistic care, innovation in technological development and clinical research. Having held Honorary Clinical Professorial positions at HKU's Department of Clinical Oncology since 2000, Professor Lee took up her current appointments in 2015. She was appointed the Deputy Chief of Service of Clinical Oncology for Queen Mary Hospital (QMH) in 2017 and is also an Honorary Consultant at the departments of Clinical Oncology at QMH. Professor Lee is also involved with many international organisations, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Union for International Cancer Control. Locally, she is Vice-President of the Hong Kong College of Radiologists. She is also Vice-Chairman of the Hong Kong Anti-Cancer Society, fostering public education and advocacy for cancer control. My research focuses on the nasopharyngeal cancer, the full spectrum from staging to treatment to survivorship, so we definitely need the holistic cancer care approach. After diagnosis of cancer we need to gauge the extensiveness of disease and then come up with a staging categorisation. Before, different countries use different systems. I am instrumental in bringing up the best data, so that now we have a global language. This is important for treatment decision and sharing of experience. Another important part of my recent work is to gather together twenty-two of the top experts on nasopharyngeal cancer to make a guideline that would help doctors in making the best radiotherapy planning. ─ Professor Anne Lee