Professor Rafał Suwiński is a specialist in radiotherapy and medical oncology. He is the head of Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy Clinic and Teaching Hospital in Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Institute of Oncology, Branch in Gliwice, Poland. He is also a member of the Transparency Council of the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tariffs in Warsaw and chairman of the Bioethics Committee at the Oncology Center in Gliwice. He graduated medicine in 1989 from the Silesian Medical University in Katowice, Faculty of Medicine. He received PhD in 1996 from the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice. He gained experience during research internships in Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Experimental Division, University of California, Los Angeles and in The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam. He received DSc (habilitation) degree from The Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Insttute of Oncology, Warsaw in 2001 and received the title of professor of medical sciences in 2007. Prof. Suwiński is the author and co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers, including 68 indexed in PubMed database. His main research interests are combined treatment (chemotherapy and radiation) of patients with lung cancer, head and neck cancer, prostate cancer and gastrointestinal cancer. He is also involved in the clinical research projects that involve molecular-targeted treatment and immunotherapy. He was a visiting professor in MD Anderson Houston, USA, Madison and completed short trainings in oncolo