23 jan PhD thesis Femke Jansen
January 15, 2018 Femke Jansen defended her thesis “Supportive care in head and neck cancer patients. Patient-reported needs and costs”....
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24 sep PhD thesis Janneke Rood
September 11, 2017 Janneke Rood defended her thesis "Perceived need for information and treatment decision-making in patients with hematological malignancies: not "one size fits all" at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam....
24 sep New PhD student
Per 1 September 2017, Angelina Santoso started as PhD student on the project: Sleep disturbances in newly diagnosed head and neck cancer patients....
24 feb Amsterdam Public Health project
Within the context of the alliance VUmc-AMC, Prof dr Ellen Laan (AMC) and Prof dr Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw (VUmc) received a grant of the new research institute Amsterdam Public Health (APH), theme Mental Health, for the project Sexual well-being in head and neck cancer patients....
24 jan Cost-effective treatment (January 2017)
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....
24 mei New PhD student
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....
24 apr EORTC QLG Newsletter Spring 2016
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....
24 nov Oncokompas2.0
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)...
24 nov New PhD students and student
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....
24 jul Best poster award
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”. ...