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The aim of this project is to maintain quality of life and improve cancer related outcome by preventing therapy-related toxicity (and ensuing unplanned hospital admission and /or discontinuation of chemotherapy) in cancer patients treated with…
To identify the pathophysiology and predictors of study (extreme) cancer treatment -induced cardiovascular toxicity in cancer patients, by in vitro investigation of cardiovascular toxicity in patient-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs) and endothelial…
The objective of this study is to Identify relevant geriatric instruments and compose a clinical model to predict tolerance and toxicity in elderly cancer patients who are treated with chemotherapy for their (metastasized) malignancy.
To assess the preemptive effect of Bepanthen® on decreasing the incidence of specific >= grade 2 dermatological side effects of interest in respect of compliance to EGFRI agents, HRQoL and the adherence during the 6-week skin treatment period…
To preserve testicular tissue of young boys with cancer for possible autologous transplantation in the future if infertility has become apparent.
To develop and evaluate the OncoActive+ project that aims to increase the amount of physical activity of (former) cancer patients. The main goal of this study is to test the effect of the intervention on physical activity behavior, as well as the…
To evaluate the effect of chemotherapy on the serological and cellular immune response to influenza virus vaccination in patients with breast or colorectal cancer in order to establisch the optimal timing of vaccination during treatment with…
To investigate the optimal timepoint of replanning during a curative radio(chemo)therapy in patients with Head and Neck cancer. Furthermore we like to analyze if the optimal timepoint of replanning is depending on tumorlocation, tumor volume or…
1: Elucidation of the factors that cause the complement deficiency in pediatric oncology patients. First, we will characterize the inhibitor of MASP-2 activity in patients during chemotherapy. 2: Identification of the complement component(s) causing…
Fertility follow-up of the women who visited our out patient ward for information on fertility preservation before starting gonadotoxic treatment
reduction of fluid administration of 30%
The goal if this study is to find out what the most effective social comparison information is when it comes to increasing quality of life and decreasing negative emotions. This question is about what kind of information the acting patient on the…
The first objective is to assess which determinants predict swallowing dysfunction after curative (chemo)radiation. We want to determine the possible relationships between the radiation dose distributions in anatomical structures involved in…
Primary Objective: To assess the effect of esomeprazole on the pharmacokinetics of BMS-275183. Secondary Objectives: To evaluate the safety and efficay of BMS-275183 co-administered with esomeprazole.
The aim of this study is to assess the prognostic value of sarcopenia and geriatric markers for survival and treatment tolerability and fluctuation of this value between several oncologic conditions. Secondly, we focus on the value of repeated CGA…
Based on the Chronic Disease Self-Management Programme, we developed the Living with Cancer programme: a self-management support programme aimed to improve the wellbeing of patients with advanced cancer and their family caregivers. According to the…
We aim to get insight in the actual quality of oncofertility care in young females with cancer. With this insight we can identify barriers and develop a strategy to improve quality of oncofertility care and thereby quality of life for young female…
To evaluate the effectiveness of a peer-led, video-based self-management support programme for patients with advanced cancer and their relatives. The programme aims to improve the wellbeing of patients with advanced cancer and their relatives,…
Patients will be included in 3 prospective cohorts, cohort A, B, C and 1 retrospective cohort, cohort 0. Cohort A: The primary objective of cohort A is to show that by implementing a standard infrastructure all newly diagnosed girls with cancer (or…
Primary: to investigate the effectiveness of using Hospital Fit as part of the physiotherapy treatment on average time spent walking per day in patients hospitalised at the Medical Oncology or Cardiology Departments of the Maastricht University…