Strategic Program Cancer nieuws
Strategic Program Cancer nieuws
Horizon Europe grant for prof. Anne May

Prof. Anne May from UMC Utrecht and her colleagues have received a 6 million Horizon Europe grant to develop and evaluate a personalized and live-remote exercise program for cancer patients. With this new intervention, they aim to resolve current problems in the implementation of exercise programs. This news item describes their research plans.
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Early detection and treatment of complications gives patients with pancreatic cancer improved perspectives
Read morePredicting whether chemo will be effective for breast cancer

Breast cancer researchers at UMC Utrecht have discovered that a certain protein can predict whether a course of chemo will be effective for aggressive breast cancer.
Read moreFurther insights into pregnancy-associated breast cancer

Largest study on pregnancy-associated breast cancer thus far highlights differences with ‘ordinary breast cancer’
Read moreMore accurate prediction of skin cancer metastases

In approximately 80% of patients with melanoma who undergo lymph node surgery, the lymph nodes do not appear to contain metastases.
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