Dr Susannah Stanway is an honorary consultant medical oncologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital in the UK, specializing in breast cancer with an interest in global cancer control and has an associate honorary faculty position at the Institute of Cancer Research. She is a past president of the Oncology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine UK. She co-convenes London Global Cancer Week. She teaches about global cancer control on several post-graduate courses in the UK. She has received awards from the Global Challenges Research Fund to collaboratively contribute to research projects in Africa. She is on the editorial board of eCancer, the American Society of Clinical Oncology International Affairs Committee and is a co-founder of the UK and Ireland Global Cancer Network. She has an interest in reducing between-and within-country cancer outcome inequalities. She lives in London with her family.