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Precision medicine 6 Nov 2020 13:56

‘Cancer during pregnancy can be intense’ | Christianne Lok in NRC

Heel af en toe krijgt een vrouw kanker terwijl ze zwanger is. Christianne Lok brengt de kennis samen die artsen erover hebben…

  6 Nov 2020 13:00

Colored cells in the colon offer insights in the development of cancer | de Volkskrant

It may resemble the leaves of an artichoke, but what we see here is the inner lining of the colon of a mouse: especially for …

image guided therapy 29 Oct 2020 17:28

New group leader Jonas Teuwen uses algorithms in fight against cancer

Artificial intelligence can benefit cancer research, diagnostics, and treatment. Jonas Teuwen researches ways in which algori…

Precision medicine 26 Oct 2020 12:58

Common genetic variants influence the risk of new breast tumor after breast cancer

De kans dat een borstkankerpatiënt een nieuwe borsttumor ontwikkelt in de andere borst, is nauwkeuriger te bepalen met een ri…

  16 Oct 2020 12:30

Cancer researchers discover new salivary gland

Researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute have discovered a new location of the salivary glands. This is potentially gr…

Fundamental research 13 Oct 2020 14:48

Neo-adjuvant immunotherapy combination effective for non-metastatic bladder cancer

This week, researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute published the results of the NABUCCO study in scientific journal N…

  5 Oct 2020 14:07

Head of the Board of Directors Rene Medema in AD | ‘Smoking takes more lives than corona’

René Medema, director of the Netherlands Cancer Society in Amsterdam, made a controversial statement: he compares the Dutch a…

  29 Sep 2020 14:13

Surgeons publish book "Alles over borstkanker" for patients and their loved ones

On October 1, surgeons Hester Oldenburg and Marie Jeanne Vrancken Peeters of the Netherlands Cancer Institute will publish th…

  29 Sep 2020 14:05

Head of Radiology, Regina Beets-Tan, on interventional radiology for cancer

De afgelopen vijf jaar is in het Antoni van Leeuwenhoek het aantal patiënten dat bij kanker wordt behandeld met interventiera…

  14 Sep 2020 18:13

Urologist Oscar Brouwer to head the penile cancer guidelines office committee European Association of Urology (EAU)

Oscar Brouwer, urologist specializing in penile cancer, has been promoted to head of the European Association of Urology’s pe…