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Oncological Epidemiology

Mission

To contribute to an improvement of early detection of cancer and a better quality of life for patients with cancer.

Content

Our unit studies the early detection of cancer and evaluation of health-related quality of life after cancer. To assess and optimize screening strategies, we identify populations at risk for cancer using systematic literature reviews, analyses of cohorts and cancer registries, and modeling. We study not only the benefits of screening, but also the negative effects of over-diagnosis, tumor-induction, and false-positive results. A UMCG oncology data biobank, OncoLifeS, was initiated to evaluate outcomes after cancer in a systematic way.

Senior staff
Name
Title and collaboration
E-mail address
Topic
Truuske de Bock

Full professor

Unit chair

g.h.de.bock umcg.nl
Screening and follow-up
Boukje van Dijk
Senior researcheri n collaboration with Comprehensive Cancer Organisation
b.a.c.van.dijk umcg.nl

Head and neck oncology

Marjolein Heuvelmans
Senior researcher
m.a.heuvelmans umcg.nl
Lung and cander screening
Janny Nagel
Project coordinator
j.nagel umcg.nl
OncoLifeS data biobank
Grigory Sidorenkov
Post-doc collaboration with Radiology
g.sidorenkov umcg.nl
Screening on lung cancer
Gijs Landman
Senior Researcher
g.w.d.landman umcg.nl
Cancer in diabetes
Willemijn Maas
Post-doc
w.j.maas umcg.nl
Quality of life after immunotherapy
Marleen Vonder
Senior Researcher
m.vonder umcg.nl
Lung cander and cardiac screening
PhD Fellows
Boukje Brattinga
Oncological Surgery
b.brattinga umcg.nl
The inflammatory response following oncological surgery of older patients
Jiali Cai
Radiology UMCG
j.cai umcg.nl
Lung nodules and lung cancer screening
Melisa Castaneda Vanegas
Pathology, UMCG
Cervical cancer screening
Marjolein Dieleman
Pathology, UMCG
m.dieleman umcg.nl
Cervical cancer screening
Jing Du
Langerhans Medical Research Group, Zwolle
j.du umcg.nl
Cancer in Diabetes patients
Sharon Hendriks
Oncological Surgery
s.hendriks umcg.nl
Outcomes of oncological surgery of older patients
Emiel Kop
Dept. Head and neck oncology and pathology
e.a.kop umcg.nl
Predictors in Laryngeal cancer
Lieke Lanjouw
Oncological Gynaecology
l.lanjouw umcg.nl
BRCA1/2 in ovarium cancer
Yixuan Lin
Radiology
y.lin02 umcg.nl
Breast cancer screening
Yifei Mao
Radiology, UMCG
y.mao umcg.nl

Evaluation in lung cancer screening

Fengming Pan
Radiology, Public Health
f.pan umcg.nl
Cervical cancer screening
Keris Poelhekken
Radiology
k.poelhekken umcg.nl
Overdiagnosis and DCIS in breast cancer
Iris Stroot
Oncological Gynaecology
i.a.stroot umcg.nl
(Pre) malignancy during and after risk reducing salpingo-oophorectomy
Anniek Stuursma
Dept. of Gynaecology
a.stuursma umcg.nl
Preventive oophorectomy
Marat Sultanov
Public Health
m.sultanov umcg.nl
Cervical cancer in lower and middle income countries
Erick Suazo Zepeda
Lung oncology
w.suazo.zepeda umcg.nl
Outcomes in lung cancer patients treated with immunotherapy
Jolien de Waard
Pathology, UMCG
j.de.waard01 umcg.nl
cervical cancer screening
Laurine van der Wal
General Practice
l.t.van.der.wal umcg.nl
Long-term outcomes after breast cancer
Linda Weerink
Dept. of Oncological Surgery
l.b.m.weerink umcg.nl
Sarcopenie as predictor for outcome after surgical oncology
Rik Wisselink
Dept. of Radiology
h.j.wisselink umcg.nl

CT biomarkers for emphysema

Fan Zhang
f.zhang umcg.nl
Breast cancer and diabetes
Senshuang Zheng
Dept of Radioloy, UMCG, Epidemiology
s.zheng02 umcg.nl
Colon cancer screening
Danrong Zong
Radoilogy
d.zhong umcg.nl
Lung cancer screening
Aniek Zwart
Head and Neck Oncology, Radiology, UMCG
a.t.zwart umcg.nl

Skeletal muscle mass as predictor of outcome in head and neck cancers

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