Articles

O.19 Overall survival improvement in metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma patients from 2000 to 2020

BJMO - 2021, issue 3, march 2021

Sofie Demasure , Isabel Spriet , Philip R. Debruyne , Annouschka Laenen , Wim Wynendaele , Marcella Baldewijns , Herlinde Dumez , Paul M. Clement , Hans Wildiers , Patrick Schöffski , Eduard Rousse , Lisa Kinget , Maarten Albersen , Benoit Beuselinck

Introduction: Only a limited number of recent phase III studies with vascular endothelial growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (VEGFR-TKIs), mTOR-inhibitors or immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (m-ccRCC) could show an overall survival (OS) benefit compared to standard of care. We aimed to study the evolution of OS of m-ccRCC patients during the last 20-years period (2000–2020).

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P18 Retrospective analysis of the clinical presentation, treatment and outcome of angiosarcoma in a sarcoma referral center

BJMO - 2021, issue 3, march 2021

Thomas Meyskens , Iris Timmermans , Hans Wildiers , Herlinde Dumez , Daphne Hompes , Melissa Christiaens , Raf Sciot , Annouschka Laenen , Jerry Lee , Patrick Schöffski

Objective: Angiosarcoma (AS) is a rare, aggressive subtype of soft tissue sarcoma (STS). Treatment requires a multidisciplinary approach and should preferably be carried out in reference centers. We performed an in-depth analysis of patient characteristics, treatments and prognostic factors in patients (pts) with AS treated at the University Hospitals Leuven (Belgium).

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O.01 IDENTIFICATION, CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TREATMENT OUTCOMES OF SOMATIC HUMAN EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2 (HER2) MUTATIONS IN METASTATIC BREAST CANCER PATIENTS

BJMO - volume 12, issue 3, february 2018

L. Jongen , Giuseppe Floris , D. Lambrechts PhD, Annouschka Laenen , Patrick Neven , Grace Mann , Richard Cutler Jr. , A. Lalani , H. Wildiers MD, PhD

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P.06 A Nursing Intervention for Reducing Symptom Burden during Chemotherapy (CHEMO-SUPPORT): Results of a Quasi-Experimental Study

BJMO - 2017, issue 3, february 2017

A. Coolbrandt PhD, H. Wildiers MD, PhD, Annouschka Laenen , B. Aertgeerts , B. Dierickx De Casterlé , T. Van Achterberg , K. Milisen PhD

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