Hugo Horlings

Since August 2014 I have been working as a pathologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. As a pathologist, I look through the microscope at tumors of cancer patients every day. Despite the fact that the tumors of different patients may look the same, they show very different genetic changes.

In other words, no tumor is identical at the DNA level. This diversity ensures that the treatment result and therefore survival can vary greatly between patients. At the Netherlands Cancer Institute, we work hard to ensure that individual patients receive tailor-made treatment based on the genetic changes in their tumor cells.