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Organisation

Head and Neck Oncology

Division

Main organisation:Department of Oncology
Lifecycle:1 Jan 2012 →  Today
Organisation profile:

The research group Head and Neck Oncologyfocuses on outcomes research and surgical innovation and technology assessment for promoting minimally invasive surgical approaches.

On the outcomes research part, (1) our team has recently developed and validated a clinicopathologic prognostic index. We are exploring the possibilities of evaluating molecular biological factors for inclusion in the index and optimizing prognostic accuracy. (2) Outcomes research further focuses on ethmoidal adenocarcinoma. These patients are registered and the treatment strategy of endoscopic resection and postoperative together with M. Jorissen. An update of now 123 patients has just been analysed and will be published. A. Hoeben and P. Clement are starting an analysis of p53 in recurrent tumors of this database. (3) Lastly, Outcomes research focuses on epidemiologic analysis on a national level of head and neck oncology treatment. To this purpose a Web-based cancer registration project is ongoing in collaboration with the Belgian Cancer Registry. The project focuses on further elaboration of head and neck cancer prospective registration in order to obtain a population-based clinicopathologic database.

Keywords:Oncology
Disciplines:Morphological sciences, Oncology