Since more than 30 years, treatment of head and neck cancer has been centralized in The Netherlands. Each patient is discussed in and treated by a multidisciplinary team of medical professionals, all highly trained in head and neck oncology according to international guidelines. Clinical outcome of head and neck cancer patients in The Netherlands is one of the best in the world.
In this three days course well-known experts will present their latest developments in this field and will share more than 30 years of experience of a MultiDisciplinary Team (MDT) approach using up-to-date diagnostic and treatment regimens, like proton therapy, immunotherapy and robot surgery. The course will be focussed on complicated patients and complex tumors, for which personalized treatment/tailored treatment is necessary. This advanced course is meant for medical professionals with basic experience in head and neck oncology who want to incorporate multidisciplinary decision making and up-to-date diagnostics and therapy into daily patient care. Besides plenary and parallel sessions, multidisciplinary tumor board simulations will be performed, discussing straightforward and also difficult cases.
Target groups are ENT-surgeons, maxillofacial surgeons, plastic surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, dermatologists, pathologists, radiologists with basic experience in head and neck oncology and allied professionals involved in head and neck oncology patient care.
We hope to welcome you and your colleagues to the beautiful city of Groningen in 2023.
Yours sincerely, on behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Gyorgy Halmos, MD, PhD, Otolaryngologist, Head and Neck Surgeon, UMCG
Boudewijn Plaat, MD, PhD, Otolaryngologist, Head and Neck Surgeon, UMCG
Anne van den Hoek, MD, Radiation Oncologist, UMCG