Florien Boele has received a Niels Stensen Fellowship. This is a scholarship that is awarded annually to a number of outstanding researchers who have recently obtained their PhD degree, to gain working experience abroad. Florien Boele will go to Pittsburgh (United States) and Edinburgh (Scotland) in 2015 and 2016....
The publication “Prevalence of depression in cancer patients: a meta-analysis of diagnostic interviews and self-report instruments” of A.M.H. Krebber et.al is chosen by the Editors as one of the key papers in Psycho-oncology, (issue June 2014)....
On April 10th, 2014, the first edition of the Value Based Healthcare Prize took place. The first prize, a Harvard style business case, was won by project "Meetbaar Beter". The prize for the most exceptional initiative in collaborations went to Jippa, a collaborative by VUmc, CZ, Radboud UMC and Tilburg University. The project includes almost half of all Dutch hospitals in their efforts to implement and test a decision aid for treatment for early stage prostate cancer, and involves many stakeholders wihtin these hospitals. Jippa aims to implement shared decision making for a large group of patients, thereby involving patients in the creation of value. The project originated from a collaboration between a university, two hospitals and an insurance company, and now has a reach of over 40 hospitals....
Inge Braspenning finished with succes her Master Health Sciences, specialisation ‘Prevention and Public Health’ (VU)....
Valesca van Zwieten finished with succes her research project for Bachelor Gezondheid & Leven...
June 2013, Irma Verdonck became Chair of the Study Group on Quality of life, Rehabilitation, and Cancer survivorship, MASCC (Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer)....
12 April 2013: Irma Verdonck was appointed as Secretary of the Quality of Life Group of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). 10-12 April 2013: The EORTC QoL Group Spring Meeting 2013 was organised by Irma Verdonck, Jaap Reijneveld (neurologist VUmc) and Neil Aaronson (NKI/AvL) in Amsterdam in "de Rode Hoed". There were over 120 participants from all over Europe....
April 2013: the Dutch Cancer Society and Alpe d'HuZes Foundation have granted the research proposal "Netherlands Quality of life and Biomedical Cohort Studies in Cancer_Head and Neck Cancer (NET-QUBIC_HNC)." NET-QUBIC_HNC is a multicenter prospective cohort study on HNC patients and their informal caregivers. The primary objective is 1) to describe the long-term course of QoL in HNC patients and their informal caregivers and to identify cancer-related, personal, genetic, biological, psychobehavioural, physical, lifestyle-related, and social determinants of QoL. Secondary objectives are: 2) To determine whether the association between QoL and survival is direct or mediated by other variables, 3) To build predictive models for QoL and survival, 4) To prospectively examine supportive care needs in all phases of the disease, 5) To describe the long term course of QoL in informal caregivers, 6) To establish a large QoL database and biobank of tissue specimen, DNA, RNA, serum plasma and saliva, with integrated clinical information. This project will be carried out by the Dept of Otolaryngology / Head & Neck Surgery of VU University Medical Center in close cooperation with the head and neck centers of VUmc in Amsterdam, UMCG in Groningen, UMC St Radboud in Nijmegen, and UMCU in Utrecht, and the Dept Clinical Psychology of VU University. The Principal Investigators are prof dr IM Verdonck-de Leeuw and prof dr CR Leemans. ...
Inge Braspenning (Master Health Sciences) has started her research project "Validation and assessing the internal consistency and interpretability of the short-form supportive care needs survey (SCNS-SF34) and cancer specific module targeting Dutch head and neck cancer patients (SCNS-SF34_HNC)". Valesca van Zwieten (Bachelor Gezondheid & Leven) has started her research project "The need for prevention, supportive care, self-management, and e-health among cancer survivors. ...
Within our research group, 2 new PhD students started in November 2012: Femke Jansen and Hoda Al-ltejawi. For more informatie, see "Research group". Also 2 students have started: Fedja Vos and Kelly Kromhout....