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25 June 2018

Janet Vos (photo), Nicoline Hoogerbrugge and Marleen Kets, theme Tumors of the digestive tract, received € 265.000 funding from the UK PTEN Research Foundation.

Their project entitled ‘Towards a more accurate cancer risk assessment in germline PTEN mutation carriers’ aims to provide accurate cancer risk estimates and for PHTS patients and to understand their cancer risk variation’. 

Together with the ERN GENTURIS, they will set-up a large European PHTS cohort to pave the way for more personalised cancer risk management and treatment.

UK PTEN Research Foundation: link.

 
 

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