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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…
Overall aim of the study is to investigate which decision-making models for patient participation are used in practice in end-of-life decision-making and how appropriate are these models for different patient groups.Secondary Objective(s): 1. In…
The aim of this project is to develop a comprehensive EORTC questionnaire for assessing sexual health for male and female patients with cancer. Given the lack of a sexual health related measure that can be used in clinical trials and in clinical…
The main objective of this study is to determine whether tumor concentrations of kinase inhibitors at pharmacological active doses can be predicted from PET studies using tracer amounts (microdosing) of corresponding radiolabeled kinase inhibitors.…
The primary objective is to test the feasibility of MRI measurements at 3T and 7T under dynamic hypercapnic or hyperoxic conditions controlled by digitally regulated respiratory challenges in volunteers.
To evaluate the validity of the SRT for assessing the exercise capacity of patients with cancer during chemotherapy.
1 To examine the differences in mindfulness between cancer patients and healthy references.2 To examine possible correlates of mindfulness, i.e. factors that may enhance or deplete mindfulness.3 To examine the relationship between mindfulness and…
The main goal of this study is to obtain MRI scans for investigating new algorithms for improvement and acceleration of patient model generation for radiotherapy and hyperthermia treatment planning.
The main objective of this study is to examine the incidence of psychosocial needs, anxiety and depressive symptoms at each time point, and to identify risk factors for worse short-term Quality of Life (QOL) in lung cancer patients and their…
Evaluation of function of maxillectomy patients after prosthetic obturation, related to the extent of the defect.
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 purpose of this study is to describe how parents try to help their child in coping with parental cancer. It will be investigated if parental help affects the coping strategy of children to deal with their parent*s illness and subsequently their…
Analyse the correlation between baseline MSC level in peripheral blood from cancer patients and their primary tumor type.
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,…
To investigate decisional conflict, treatment choices, and quality of life in patients with HNSCC after individualized prognostic counselling, in comparison with the current prognostic counselling. Secondary objectives are to investigate (disease-…
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…