- Promotor
- Co-promotor
- Co-promotor
- Date
- Friday 21 Jun 2024, 10:30 - 12:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
On Friday 21 June 2024, A.C. de Jong will defend the doctoral thesis titled: ‘Imaging and Biomarkers in Prostate Cancer‘.
Brief summary of the doctoral thesis:
Due to the increasing number of therapies and wide variety in response to treatment of patients with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), reliable biomarkers for response prediction and evaluation are needed. In this thesis, we investigated the value of novel PET imaging, large scale genomics and liquid biopsies as biomarkers for patients with mCRPC. Overall, the investigated biomarkers showed promising results, and could be used to improve treatment guidance after prospective validation in larger patient cohorts. In addition, we gained detailed insight in the response to radium-223, which improved our understanding of the working mechanism and possibilities for application of radium-223.
- More information
The public defence will begin exactly at 10.30 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers may be able to watch on the screen outside. There is no possibility of entrance during the first part of the ceremony. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, children under the age of 6 are not allowed during the first part of the ceremony.