Research group Personalized cancer care and outcomes research

Aims

Today, about 60% of the patients who are diagnosed with cancer will survive for more than 10 years. The growing population of cancer survivors thus poses an increasing burden on healthcare systems, since 1) an increasing number of cancer survivors receive follow-up examinations (e.g., imaging, blood tests and consults); 2) many cancer survivors keep experiencing (physical and psychosocial) health problems in the years after treatment and 3) there is an increasing shortage of medical personnel. Therefore, a transformation in the organization of cancer care is urgently needed to attain high quality care for each individual patient. To optimize and individualize oncological healthcare, our research group focusses on three topics:

1. The development and use of prediction models to individualize treatment decisions and cancer (follow-up) care;
2. Improving patient empowerment by remote symptom monitoring using patient-reported outcomes (PROs);
3. Risk-stratification to reduce the number of unnecessary (follow-up) examinations.

Publications

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