Annelies Boekhout

Senior scientist

My research focus is on the influence of cancer and cancer treatments on physical and psychosocial functioning in patients on treatment and in long-term survivors. I have a special interest in patients treated with immunotherapy and the development of personalized follow-up models.

I received a KWF grant to study prostate cancer follow-up care. In this study, clinical outcomes and patient reported outcomes are compared between specialist-based follow-up care to general practitioner-based follow-up care. Moreover, I participate in a European Horizon2020 project called Cancer Patients Better Life Experience and I am principal investigator of several (clinical) studies in which we investigate quality of life during and after immunotherapy in high-risk and advanced melanoma patients.

Finally, I co-supervise PhD projects in prostate and melanoma cancer patients.

Work experience

Degree in Advanced Nursing Practice
2011: PhD from the Utrecht University. My thesis was focused on the treatment of anti-cancer therapy induced menopausal symptoms and on trastuzumab-related cardiac dysfunction in women with breast cancer.
2012-2016: Research fellow from the Dutch Cancer Society (KWF). I worked at the Department of Family and Community Medicine of the
University of Toronto, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, Department of Paediatric Oncology at the Academic Medical Center Amsterdam and the Department of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.

Annelies Boekhout

Senior scientist

Fields of expertise

Quality of Life

Survivorship care and personalized survivorship care (follow-up) models

Clinical studies

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