PRECISION is funded by Cancer Research UK and Dutch Cancer Society
News
A new study reveals – 6 prognostic factors which may predict invasive breast cancer recurrence after DCIS diagnosis
A new meta-analysis from the Wesseling lab at NKI indicate 6 prognostic factors which may predict invasive breast cancer recurrence after DCIS diagnosis. Lindy Visser, PhD student in the Wesseling group, together with colleagues from NKI published a systematic review...
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PRECISION Annual Review Meeting 23-25 January 2019
PRECISION steering group members, collaborators and patient advocates convened for the second CRUK annual review meeting at Windsor from 23rd-25th January 2019. For more pictures and videos of the meeting click here
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San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) 2018
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2018 was attended by Jelle Wesseling, Alastair Thompson, Shelley Hwang, Daniel Rea and Deborah Collyar from the PRECISION team. A poster was presented by Jelle Wesseling describing new insights into relatedness of DCIS and...
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PRECISION annual meeting 25 January 2018
Preventing unnecessary breast cancer treatment
Every year, around 6,300 women in the UK are told they have a condition called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). In the US this figure sits at over 50,000 women, while in the Netherlands 2,500 women are given this diagnosis. These women are often told the condition is...
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PRECISION kick off meeting in Amsterdam
Steering group, collaborators and all patient advocates came together to celebrate the start of PRECISION. Research plans were discussed as well as the collaboration in more detail.
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Patholoog Jelle Wesseling over borstkankeronderzoek @Pauw – VARA
Patholoog Jelle Wesseling van het Antonie van Leeuwenhoek-ziekenhuis geeft woensdag 17 mei het startsein voor ‘De Marathon tegen Kanker’ waarin vele Bekende en onbekende Nederlanders zich weer gaan inzetten om zoveel mogelijk geld op te halen voor KWF. En dat is niet...
read moreIs Stage Zero breast cancer really cancer? 7 ON YOUR SIDE investigates the controversy
The word cancer strikes fear into Americans with good reason. Last year, nearly 1.7 million people in the US were diagnosed with it. But there is an increasingly loud conversation among some doctors and patients questioning certain diagnoses and the aggressive...
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Film: KWF Challenge Jelle Wesseling
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