Professor Robert Thomas is a full time NHS Consultant Oncologist at Addenbrooke's and Bedford Hospitals specialising in Prostate and Breast cancer. He is also a Clinical Teacher at Cambridge University, a health correspondent for NationalWorld News, a Professor of Sports and Nutritional science at the University of Bedfordshire, Head of integrative Oncology at UCLH and author of the bestselling book "How to Live".

He manages patients with chemotherapy radiotherapy and biological treatments but incorporates nutritional and lifestyle strategies into routine management to enhance outcomes and reduce side effects.

He is head of a Lifestyle and Cancer Research Unit which designs and conducts national studies which evaluate the impact of exercise, diet, gut health and natural therapies on cancer, long covid, other chronic diseases and exercise performance. He is currently chief investigator of the national covid vaccine nutritional intervention study and the YourPhyto study the world' first RCT to show that a combination of phytochemical rich foods and probiotics aiming to improve gut health slowed prostate cancer progression and improved urinary symptoms. His over 100 peer viewed scientific papers and presentations published from this research, can be accessed on cancernet.co.uk/rthomas.htm.

For this work, he has been awarded the Royal College of Radiologist and Oncologist research medal, an honorary Fellowship in the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and "Oncologist of the Year" by The British Oncology Association.

He writes a regular blog posted on keep-health.com