Biography
Dr Neha Aggarwal is a medical oncologist at Icon Cancer Centre Canberra. She undertook physician and specialist oncology training in Australia, including a two-year fellowship in early phase clinical trial and drug development at The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, Sydney. With a strong passion for clinical and translational research, Dr Aggarwal is currently pursuing a PhD investigating immune evasion in small cell lung cancer. She is an active investigator on several clinical trials at Canberra Hospital.
Dr Aggarwal maintain affiliations with several national and international research institutions including the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Medical Oncology Group of Australia (MOGA) and Thoracic Oncology Group of Australia (TOGA). Outside of Icon, she is a clinical lecturer at the Australian National University Medical School, providing educational support to medical students, basic and advanced physician trainees. Dr Aggarwal also holds medical oncology staff specialist appointments at Canberra Hospital and South East Regional Hospital, Moruya.
She speaks fluent English and Hindi and looks forward to caring for patients and their loved ones in their preferred language. Her clinical experience covers a broad range of solid tumour malignancies with a special interest in thoracic malignancies (including lung cancer and mesothelioma), genitourinary cancers (including prostate cancer, renal cancer, bladder cancer and testicular cancer), breast cancer and central nervous system (CNS) malignancies.