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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 …

6 Nov 2020 13:00

image guided therapy

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…

29 Oct 2020 17:28

Precision medicine

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…

26 Oct 2020 12:58

 

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…

16 Oct 2020 12:30

Fundamental research

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…

13 Oct 2020 14:48

 

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…

5 Oct 2020 14:07

 

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 14:13

 

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…

29 Sep 2020 14:05

 

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…

14 Sep 2020 18:13

 

No instruments? Then your doctor will just have to make some | Theo Ruers in the FD

By cleverly combining affordable technologies, creative Dutch physicians are developing their own tools to treat cancer, cere…

14 Sep 2020 10:45