Goals

  • Identifying patients in need of supportive care interventions.
  • Development and evaluation of supportive care interventions.
  • Empowering patients, understanding patients’ resilience, and self-management strategies.
  • Strategies to monitor symptoms/toxicity, functioning and health-related quality of life to facilitate timely self-management or referral to supportive care interventions.
  • Implementation of effective supportive care interventions in practice or de-implementation of less-effective supportive care interventions.


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Research Research programs Supportive cancer care research

Our purpose

We aim to unravel which supportive care interventions are most effective for which outcome (e.g., symptom/toxicity, functioning, health-related quality of life), for whom, when, and how (i.e. via which underlying mechanism).

Goals

See some of the most important goals for this research program.

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Research groups contributing to this research program

Allied health sciences

Philip van der Wees's research group aims to have a significant impact on people’s daily lives through research and education in allied healthcare.

Epidemiology

Bart Kiemeney's research group aims to improve the diagnosis and treatment of urological cancers using observational and experimental designs.

Hematology

Nicole Blijlevens's research group wants to develop innovative and effective forms of supportive and integrated care to reduce toxicity and improve tolerability of therapy.

Spokesperson(s) for this research program

Spokesperson

dr. Laurien Buffart

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