Goals

  • Establish early diagnosis and accurate risk stratification before, during and after lung cancer.
  • Novel and minimally invasive therapeutic interventions for lung cancer.
  • Maximized efficacy and minimized risk of lung cancer treatment and follow-up.
  • Establish a multimodal and continuous data registry on lung cancer.
  • Develop sustainable health care networks on lung cancer.


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Research Research programs Thoracic oncology

Our purpose

We aim to present a framework ultimately resulting in fewer patients who develop advanced stage disease, allowing lung cancer patients to live longer in good health and with a higher health-related quality of life.

Goals

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

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Research groups contributing to this research program

Artificial intelligence in thoracic oncology

Colin Jacobs's research group investigates how to develop robust and trustworthy artificial intelligence algorithms for medical imaging in the field of lung cancer, how to validate these algorithms in clinical practice, and how we can have the most impact with AI in healthcare.

Personalized onco-immunology diagnostics

Hans Jacobs's research group aims to understand the complex interplay between cancer and the immune system and to develop novel cancer-diagnostics that have a significant impact for patients.

Spokesperson(s) for this research program

Spokesperson

dr. ir. Colin Jacobs

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Spokesperson

prof. dr. Erik van der Heijden

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Spokesperson

dr. Roel Verhoeven

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Spokesperson

Francesco Ciompi PhD

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Spokesperson

dr. Iris Walraven

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