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Presentations 2010

Invited lectures:

Disease management, stepped care en e-health: van OncoQuest naar het OncoKompas. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. Symposium Kwaliteit van leven, overleven en regie bij de patient met hoofd-halskanker. Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, December 10, 2010.
Disease management and e-health to facilitate and innovate supportive care in cancer patients. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. Symposium Trends and developments in cancer survivorship care. Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, November 12, 2010.
Aan het werk met het OncoKompas. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. Congres Kanker en Arbeid 2, CAGA, Amsterdam, October 8, 2010.
Leven met kanker: over berg en dal. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. Minisymposium Mammazorg en kwaliteit. Medisch Spectrum Twente, Hengelo, October 7, 2010.
Psychological distress in cancer. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. Alpe d’HuZes Cancer Rehabilitation Research A-CaRe Meeting 2. Amsterdam, October 4, 2010.
Patient reported outcome in clincal practice: OncoQuest and OncoCompass. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. EORTC Quality of Life Group. Leipzig, Germany, September 23, 2010.
Leven met kanker: innovatieve zorgprogramma's en e-health. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. Masterclass E-health. Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, September 3, 2010.
Cancer survivorship: research and clinical practice in the Netherlands. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. Workshop Cancer Survivorship. MASCC, Vancouver, Canada, June 23, 2010.
Computerized monitoring of quality of life in cancer patients. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. University Hospital Antwerpen, Belgium, April 26, 2010.
Patient reported outcome and supportive care. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. 4th European Conference on Head and Neck Oncology. Athens, March 4-6, 2010.

Presentations and workshops at international conferences:

Disease management in cancer patients: the development of a stepped care strategy. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. Medicine2.0, Maastricht, The Netherlands, November 29-30, 2010.
Patient reported speech and swallowing outcome after chemoradiation for head and neck cancer. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. 28th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP). Athens, Greece, August 25 2010
Neural network analysis to assess hypernasality in patients treated for oral or oropharyngeal cancer. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. 28th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP). Athens, Greece, August 26 2010
Objective assessment of speech quality in patients treated for a tumour in the oral cavity or oropharynx. Verdonck-de Leeuw IM. 28th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP). Athens, Greece, August 26 2010
Evaluation of an exercise protocol during radiotherapy to prevent speech, swallowing and shoulder problems in postoperative oral and oropharyngeal cancer patients. Cnossen IC. 28th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP). Athens, Greece, August 22-26 2010
Neural network analysis to assess hypernasality in patients treated for oral or oropharyngeal cancer. de Bruijn MJ. 28th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP). Athens, Greece, August 22-26 2010
Objective assessment of speech quality in patients treated for a tumour in the oral cavity or oropharynx. de Bruijn MJ. 28th World Congress of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP). Athens, Greece, August 22-26 2010
Cost-effectiveness of a stepped care strategy to improve symptoms of depression or anxiety in patients treated for head and neck cancer or lung cancer. Krebber AMH. 1st Young Researchers Day 2010. VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 22, 2010.

Presentations and workshops at national conferences:

Development of an exercise protocol during radiotherapy to prevent speech, swallowing and shoulder complaints in head and neck cancer patients. Cnossen IC. 217th scientific meeting of the Dutch Ear, Nose and Throat society and Head & Neck Surgery. Nieuwegein, November 19, 2010
Gezond verder met het OncoKompas. Verdonck IM, van Uden-Kraan CF & van Calken CK. Deelname aan projectenmarkt en rondetafelgesprek, lustrumcongres Nationaal Programma Kankerbestrijding, Rotterdam, November 17, 2010.
E-health and speech therapy: an example. Development of an exercise protocol during radiotherapy to prevent speech, swallowing and shoulder complaints in head and neck cancer patients. Cnossen IC. Alumni Logopedie aan Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen (HAN), Nijmegen, November 4, 2010
Development of an exercise protocol during radiotherapy to prevent speech, swallowing and shoulder complaints in head and neck cancer patients. Cnossen IC. Paramedische Werkgroep Hoofd-Hals Oncologie (PWHHO), The Hague, March 5, 2010

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News flashes

12 april 2013: KWF Kankerbestrijding / Alpe d’HuZes has granted the research proposal Netherlands Quality of life and Biomedical Cohort Studies in Cancer (NET-QUBIC).

Marieke de Bruijn will defend her PhD thesis on 10 juni 2013 at 15.45 pm.

Support our bicycle team for Alpe d'HuZes 2013!

On 6 June 2013 our team living together with cancer will cycle the Alpe d'HuZes! This in the fight against cancer. At this moment there is already more than 1500 euro donated. Do you support us too?

The 15th World Congress of Psycho-Oncology and Psychosocial Academy will be held in Rotterdam, 4-8 November 2013. www.ipos-society.org/ipos2013/.

29 January 2013. Pink Ribbon has granted a project to develop and evaluate an online training for cancer patients with insomnia (Annemieke van Straten), and a project to develop and evaluate a breast cancer module for the OncoKompas (Nelly van Uden).

Charity Symposium "Living with cancer"

On December 19, 2012 there will be a Symposium ''Living with Cancer''. This is a charity symposium on meaning centered psychotherapy for cancer patients. Read more about it at the tab News at the left.

15 November 2012: Hoe?Zo! Radio interview with Irma Verdonck on stress and cancer.

October 2012: Interview with Irma Verdonck in Psychologie Magazine.

September 9, 2012. Interview Hans van Willigenburg with Irma Verdonck on Radio 5.

August 2012. Five students finish their MSc thesis and graduate as MSc in Clinical PSychology.

June 28-30, 2012: International symposium on Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC ISOO) at New York. Kevin Yap and Irma Verdonck organise a workshop on e-health and supportive care.

Record for Alpe d'HuZes 2012. The sponsor action Alpe d'HuZes (6 and 7 June) 2012 has already yielded the record amount of 28.5 million euros.

June 6-8, 2012: Our research group contributes to Alpe d'HuZes as volunteers.

April 20, 2012: Nelly van Uden will give a presentation about OncoKompas at a conference about ICT in health care in Barcelona.

March 16, 2012: NVPO congress in Utrecht, we contribute with 2 oral and 2 poster presentations and a workshop.

January 1, 2012: The project POLARIS project has officially started.

December 22, 2011: Radio program DeGids.fm, Felix Meurders interviews Corien Eeltink on sexuality and cancer.

November 2, 2011: KWF / Alpe d'HuZes funds a grant for the development and evaluation of an online intervention for informal caregivers of cancer patients.

October 30, 2011 In the national television program "Gesprek op 2", Daphne Bunskoek interviewed Irma Verdonck on living with cancer.

October 28, 2011: www.oncokompas.nl is online!

October 23, 2011: Alpe d'HuZes hands over more than 20 million euros to the Dutch Cancer Society!

Team work

Our research projects are embedded in the two largest research institutes of VU University in Amsterdam: VUmc CCA-VICI (Cancer Center Amsterdam) www.vumc.nl/afdelingen/CCA-V-ICI/ and EMGO+ (Institute for Health and Care Research emgo.nl

We work closely with patients and their caregivers and with researchers and physicians at VU University and VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam and other research institutes and hospitals in the Netherlands and worldwide. Team work is crucial improving research and translating results into clinical practice.