Hospitals and Health Care · Gelderland
The research program focuses on the development, evaluation and implementation of optimal supportive care for patients with cancer. Supportive cancer care is defined as the prevention and management of the adverse effects of cancer and its treatment. Good supportive care should be evidence-based. Therefore, the mission of the program is to perform high quality research in all aspects of supportive cancer care, including symptom management, optimizing physical, emotional, role, social and cognitive functioning and health-related quality of life of patients with cancer and to help maintain patients’ autonomy during all phases of their cancer journey. The common goal is to unravel which supportive care interventions are most effective for which outcome (e.g., symptom/toxicity, functioning, health-related quality of life), for whom, when, and how. This knowledge is essential to provide the best personalised evidence-based supportive cancer care. To do so in a cost-effective manner, our focus is on monodisciplinary care where possible, and multidisciplinary supportive care where necessary, supported by constructive team science or combined interprofessional research forces.