From What’s the matter? to What matters to you? Healthcare needs to make this shift in order to provide the best personalised care for patients, us humans. Let me give you an example of my own treatment: In 2018 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. When I was told that...
A year after the Dutch parliament unanimously voted to reimburse whole-genome sequencing (WGS) for patients with an unmet medical need, it appears that this still has not been implemented. And patients are dying… This example is unfortunately not unique. The...
WE HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE AS A SOCIETY TO SCREEN FOR MORE CANCERS SO WE CAN TRY TO FIND THEM EARLIER OR CONTINUE TO FACE THE OVERWHELMING BURDEN OF LATE-STAGE CANCER AND DO NOTHING BUT WAIT… The advancement of liquid biopsy assays (LBx) provides an opportunity to...
We kindly remind you that our Annual Congress 2022 will take place from September 14, starting 3 pm to September 16, ending 3 pm at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam. In Western countries, it seems that cancer is treated much better than...
Peter: “I know from personal experience just how important stem cell donors are. In 2005 I was diagnosed with a lymphoma and, after three relapses, I needed an unrelated bone marrow transplant. The patient needs a match with a donor on the HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigen...
