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More effective treatment of oesophageal cancer possible thanks to new insight Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are not always successful against oesophageal cancer. However, a new discovery by researchers at Amsterdam UMC Cancer Center Amsterdam, published today in Cell Reports Medicine, can provide more insight into why: irradiated oesophageal cancer cells have more mitochondria or 'energy factories'. With these factories they can make energy and repair the damage caused by the radiation.Nieuws
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Booster vaccinations prove useful for people with transplanted kidney Booster vaccinations prove useful for people with transplanted kidney Immune response emerges after multiple shotsNieuws
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It's Time to Accept Death and Give it a Real Place in Society Life expectancies are constantly increasing but for Dr. Roeline Pasman, Associate Professor of End of Life Research we need to suppress the urge to "want to live longer” and, instead, "accept death and give it a real place in society”.Nieuws
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Giving Everyone an Equal Opportunity to be Healthy By giving everyone "an equal opportunity to be healthy", Professor Charles Agyemang is certain that "we can help people make a change in their lives.” A change that would go a long way to reducing not only health inequalities, but also societal inequality.Nieuws
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The First Thousand Days After almost 25 years of research, Dr. Tessa Roseboom, Professor of Early Development and Health has identified the first 1000 days as the most critical to shaping who we grow up to be.Nieuws
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Improving detection of recurrences during follow-up care in lung cancer patients Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Radboud university medical center received a 2.5 million euro grant for promising care from the National Health Care Institute and ZonMW. They will investigate if the use of PET/CT scans during follow-up of lung cancer patients results in a higher and earlier detection rate of recurrences.Nieuws
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No camel feces for diarrhea A story about the history of fecal transplantation that is often cited in the scientific and popular literature states that German soldiers in the Second World War treated dysentery with camel feces. A team of microbiologists from Amsterdam UMC and the University of Amsterdam encountered this story in their research on gut health and investigated if there is any truth behind it. Their findings were published in PLOS ONE.Nieuws
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Winning combination of drugs for treating Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) are better off with a combination of ibrutinib and venetoclax. This is more effective than the standard treatment, researchers of Amsterdam UMC discovered.Nieuws
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'Data of ICU patients can answer thousands of questions' ICUdata is an ambitious data-sharing project. Intensivist Paul Elbers, one of the initiators, is enthusiastic about the project that is entering its next phase – and it’s going far beyond its initial scope.Nieuws
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Prescribing of medication did not always go smoothly during corona pandemic The first patients to visit Amsterdam UMC's "post-covid-19 outpatient clinic" in 2020 taught doctors and pharmacists an important lesson: in times of a crisis, information about medication can easily be jeopardized. "This is a valuable lesson for the crises that are doubtless still to come."Nieuws
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