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Femke Jansen is a health scienitist and epidemiologist and works as a researcher at the department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of AmsterdamUMC, location VUmc. In January 2018, Femke succesfully defended her PhD on "Supportive care in head and neck cancer patients: Patient-reported needs and costs”.
Currently, Femke coordinates a large longitudinal observational cohort study (NET-QUBIC) among head and neck cancer patients and their informal caregivers. In December 2019, she received the Young Investigator Grant / Bas Mulder Award of the Dutch Cancer Society to investigate late effects, supportive care needs and (supportive) care utilization up to 5 years follow-up among this group of patients and caregivers. Femke her research interests mainly focus on the need for supportive care and the costs and cost-effectiveness of supportive care interventions targeting cancer patients.