Charalampos Fotsitzoudis
Oncologist

Working Experience
March 2025 - Present
Medican Oncologist, Consultant German Medical Institute, Limassol, Cyprus
February 2023 - December 2024
Sub-Investigator, Clinical Trials department, Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Heraklion More than 30 clinical trials, mainly intervantional: breast, lung, pancreas, colorectal, basket trials etc- phase I/II/III
Αugust 2020 - February 2023
Resident of Medical Oncology, Department of Oncology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece
August 2018 - August 2020
Resident of Medical Oncology- General Cancer Hospital of Pireus ‘Metaxa’, Pireus, Greece - August 2018- September 2019: Department of Internal Medicine - October 2019- March 2020: Department of Oncology - April 2020-August 2020: Department of Transplantation
Education
September 2022 - October 2023
Greek Academy of Oncology, 8th cycle
April 2024 - ongoing
PhD candidate, Laboratory of Translational Oncology, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece. Thesis: ‘Investigation of the expression of Trop-2 and PD-L1 in the primary tumor and in the periphery in patients with triplenegative breast cancer: correlation with clinicopathological data and outcome’.
October 2011 -April 2018
Medical School, Meical University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
2008-2011
High school: Lyceium of Didymoteicho, Evros. Greece Grade 19.1/20
Language and Other qualifications
Greek (mother tongue)
English (fluently), Certificate of Proficiency in English, University of Michigan
German (good), Geothe – Zertifikat B1
Bulgarian (good)
Computer/programming knowledge: excellent knowledge of windows and office (word, excel, powerpoint)
Accreditations
September 2021
Distance learning course: ‘Oncogenomics for health professionals’ , Instituto Superiore di Sanita and Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
December 2022
Good Clinical Pracice (GCP) certification
Publications
September 2022
Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts: The Origin, Biological Characteristics and Role in Cancer-A Glance on Colorectal Cancer’. Fotsitzoudis C, Koulouridi A, Messaritakis I, Konstantinidis T, Gouvas N, Tsiaoussis J, Souglakos J. Cancers
August 2024
Prognostic Value of Fas/Fas Ligand Expression on Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) and Immune Cells in the Peripheral Blood of Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer Maria A. Papadaki, Eleni Papadaki, Sofia Chatziavraam, Despoina Aggouraki, Kleita Michaelidou, Charalampos Fotsitzoudis, Maria Vassilakopoulou, Dimitrios Mavroudis and Sofia Agelaki Cancers
August 2024
Blood immunomap for prediction of responses to aPD1 immunotherapy in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. Maria Semitekolou, Nikolaos Paschalidis,Domenico Lo Tartaro, Aikaterini Tsitsopoulou, Panagiota Stamou, Alexandros Mavroudis, Effrosyni Markaki, Athina Varveri, Ioannis Morianos, Matthieu Lavigne, Charalampos Fotsitzoudis, Sophia Magkouta, Konstantina Dede, Ioannis Kalomenidis, Konstantinos Samitas, Konstantinos Potaris, Andrea Cossarizza, Dimitrios Mavroudis, Sara De Biasi, Panayiotis Verginis
June 2025
Comparative analysis of TROP2 expression in tumor tissues and circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the peripheral blood of patients with triple negative breast cancer Dimitrios Mavroudis; Eleni Lagoudaki; Sofia Gounaki; Sofia Hatziavraam; Charalampos Fotsitzoudis; Kleita Michaelidou; Sofia Agelaki; Maria A Papadaki
January 2026
Ulcerated Achilles Lesion Revealing Extensive Gouty Tophi in a Patient Under Chemotherapy
International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases
Seminars – Congresses
Participation in national / international conferences / seminars, including active participation (presentation)
Member of Scientific Committee
August 2020
Member of Heraklion Medical Association
September 2022
Member of young Greek Oncologists group (ONEO)
February 2023
Member of European Society of Oncology(ESMO)
