Head of Physician
Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Japan
Dr Shimoi is a medical oncologist. He trained in internal medicine and then specialised as an medical oncologist in solid tumours. He specialises in sarcomas and other rare cancers, breast, gynaecological and urological cancers and cancers of unknown primary site. His research is related to cancer genomic medicine. He had worked for the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, where he was in charge of Japan's health insurance system and was involved in developing the infrastructure for genomic medicine in Japan.
