Treatment of psychological distress in patients with head and neck or lung cancer cost-effective. A recent study of PhD-student Femke Jansen and colleagues, recently published in the prestigious Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that this stepped care program is highly-likely to be cost-effective....
Per 1 May 2016, Anouk Schuit started on her PhD project within the ICT4PAL project. In this project the Oncokompas2.0 will be adapted for cancer patients in the palliative phase of the disease, and for their informal caregivers....
The EORTC QLG Spring Meeting took place on April 20th and 21th 2016 in Oslo. The Spring newsletter of the EORTC QLG is now available....
VU/VUmc and Red-kite sign agreement for the provision of the Oncokompas2.0 in healthcare. The VU University Amsterdam and VUmc Cancer Center Amsterdam work with Red-kite, distributor of software for hospitals in Netherlands. (November 3, 2015)...
Within our researchgroup 3 new PhD students started in the summer of 2015: Matthijs de Wit, Anja van der Hout and Koen Neijenhuijs. For more informatie, see "Research group". Also one student started in November 2015: Ben de Haan....
During the IPOS/APOS World Congress of Psycho-Oncology at Washington (July 2015) Karen Holtmaat received the best poster award for her poster “Psychological posttraumatic growth in head and neck cancer survivors with psychological distress”. ...
On June 15th, 2015, Irma Verdonck presented the book "In Tune Without Cords" (in Dutch: VerderZonderStembanden) to Rob Burdorf, the president of the patient society for patients after laryngectomy. twitter.com/knovumc The self-care program was already available online and now also as a book for people who do not have acces to the Internet. More information on he project can be found here....
On February 4, 2015 - World Cancer Day – VU University Amsterdam and VUmc Cancer Center Amsterdam launch the Oncokompas2.0, in collaboration with the Integraal Kankercentrum Nederland (IKNL) and patient association Levenmetkanker. Oncokompas2.0 is an online self-management tool which supports a cancer patient to find the most relevant information and accompanying care in the area of quality of life, tailored to the personal health situation and preferences. The establishment of and research of Oncokompas2.0 is financed by KWF / Alpe d'HuZes, Zilveren Kruis Achmea, Pink Ribbon Foundation and Nutricia....
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)....