Updates
Key figures and quick facts to highlight our work.
In this edition we focus on a specific type of cancer: Breast cancer.
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Mortality
In 2018 more than 3.000 Dutch people died of breast cancer.
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Focus
8 of our Oncode Investigators focus their research on breast cancer.
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Incidence
Breast cancer accounts for 13% of all cancer diagnoses in the Netherlands.
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Proof
We support two Clinical Proof of Concept studies into novel therapeutics and diagnostics for breast cancer.
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Gender
Breast cancer can also affect men, this accounts for almost 0,9% of the cases.
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Workshop
In our last clinical workshop, we brought together 64 researchers and clinicians working on breast cancer.
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