Dr Naveed Sarwar Consultant medical oncologist and honorary senior clinical lecturer
- Patient age group
- Adults
- Consultant registered on
- 05/08/1996
- Primary medical qualifications
- BSc MBBS MRCP PhD
- Foreign languages
- Gender
- Male
- Services
- Hospitals
Contact
- Phone
- 020 3311 1478
Ramakrishna Ramalingam
Background
Dr Naveed Sarwar was appointed to Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust in 2014 to lead the Medical Oncology group, in the treatment of urological cancers having previously been a consultant at Barts Health NHS trust since 2008. He is a member of the National Cancer Research Institute clinical studies group for testicular cancer and also a member of the National Cancer Research Institute clinical studies group for metastatic bladder cancer.
Dr Sarwar is very actively involved in clinical trial research leading a spectrum of clinical studies from phase II to randomized Phase III. He is the lead for urological medical oncology at Charing Cross Hospital, and the research lead for the treatment of urological cancers within NW Thames network. He has co-authored papers on urological cancers and Gestational Trophoblast Disease in peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of both the European and American Societies of Oncology and a keen participant in their annual meetings. He is the deputy director of the Charing Cross Trophoblast Screening and Treatment Centre.
Expertise
Gestational trophobalstic disease, atypical placental site nodules, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer , testicular cancer, ovarian germ cell cancer
Research & publications
Adjuvant Pembrolizumab after Nephrectomy in Renal-Cell Carcinoma.
Choueiri TK, Tomczak P, Park SH, Venugopal B, Ferguson T, Chang YH, Hajek J, Symeonides SN, Lee JL, Sarwar N, Thiery-Vuillemin A, Gross-Goupil M, Mahave M, Haas NB, Sawrycki P, Gurney H, Chevreau C, Melichar B, Kopyltsov E, Alva A, Burke JM, Doshi G, Topart D, Oudard S, Hammers H, Kitamura H, Bedke J, Perini RF, Zhang P, Imai K, Willemann-Rogerio J, Quinn DI, Powles T; KEYNOTE-564 Investigators.
N Engl J Med. 2021 Aug 19;385(8):683-694. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2106391.
Pembrolizumab versus placebo as post-nephrectomy adjuvant therapy for clear cell renal cell carcinoma (KEYNOTE-564): 30-month follow-up analysis of a multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial.
Powles T, Tomczak P, Park SH, Venugopal B, Ferguson T, Symeonides SN, Hajek J, Gurney H, Chang YH, Lee JL, Sarwar N, Thiery-Vuillemin A, Gross-Goupil M, Mahave M, Haas NB, Sawrycki P, Burgents JE, Xu L, Imai K, Quinn DI, Choueiri TK; KEYNOTE-564 Investigators.
Lancet Oncol. 2022 Sep;23(9):1133-1144. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(22)00487-9
Erdafitinib in Locally Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma.
Loriot Y, Necchi A, Park SH, Garcia-Donas J, Huddart R, Burgess E, Fleming M, Rezazadeh A, Mellado B, Varlamov S, Joshi M, Duran I, Tagawa ST, Zakharia Y, Zhong B, Stuyckens K, Santiago-Walker A, De Porre P, O'Hagan A, Avadhani A, Siefker-Radtke AO; BLC2001 Study Group.
N Engl J Med. 2019 Jul 25;381(4):338-348. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1817323
Cabozantinib plus Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Renal-Cell Carcinoma.
Choueiri TK, Powles T, Albiges L, Burotto M, Szczylik C, Zurawski B, Yanez Ruiz E, Maruzzo M, Suarez Zaizar A, Fein LE, Schutz FA, Heng DYC, Wang F, Mataveli F, Chang YL, van Kooten Losio M, Suarez C, Motzer RJ; COSMIC-313 Investigators.
N Engl J Med. 2023 May 11;388(19):1767-1778. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2212851.
Temporary treatment cessation versus continuation of first-line tyrosine kinase inhibitor in patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma (STAR): an open-label, non-inferiority, randomised, controlled, phase 2/3 trial.
Brown JE, Royle KL, Gregory W, Ralph C, Maraveyas A, Din O, Eisen T, Nathan P, Powles T, Griffiths R, Jones R, Vasudev N, Wheater M, Hamid A, Waddell T, McMenemin R, Patel P, Larkin J, Faust G, Martin A, Swain J, Bestall J, McCabe C, Meads D, Goh V, Min Wah T, Brown J, Hewison J, Selby P, Collinson F; STAR Investigators.
Lancet Oncol. 2023 Mar;24(3):213-227. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(22)00793-8. Epub 2023 Feb 13
Pembrolizumab is effective for drug-resistant gestational trophoblastic neoplasia.
Ghorani E, Kaur B, Fisher RA, Short D, Joneborg U, Carlson JW, Akarca A, Marafioti T, Quezada SA, Sarwar N, Seckl MJ.
Lancet. 2017 Nov 25;390(10110):2343-2345. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32894-5.
Increasing the human chorionic gonadotrophin cut-off to ≤1000 IU/l for starting actinomycin D in post-molar gestational trophoblastic neoplasia developing resistance to methotrexate spares more women multi-agent chemotherapy.
Cortés-Charry R, Hennah L, Froeling FEM, Short D, Aguiar X, Tin T, Harvey R, Unsworth N, Kaur B, Savage P, Sarwar N, Seckl MJ.
ESMO Open. 2021 Jun;6(3):100110. doi: 10.1016/j.esmoop.2021.100110. Epub 2021 Apr 10
Predictors for single-agent resistance in FIGO score 5 or 6 gestational trophoblastic neoplasia: a multicentre, retrospective, cohort study.
Braga A, Paiva G, Ghorani E, Freitas F, Velarde LGC, Kaur B, Unsworth N, Lozano-Kuehne J, Dos Santos Esteves APV, Rezende Filho J, Amim J Jr, Aguiar X, Sarwar N, Elias KM, Horowitz NS, Berkowitz RS, Seckl MJ.
Lancet Oncol. 2021 Aug;22(8):1188-1198. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(21)00262-X. Epub 2021 Jun 25.