Recieved grant in 2025
DCCC has funded 200.000 DKK to support the continuation of DCCC Radiotherapy as a national and interdisciplinary network.
DCCC Radiotherapy currently serves as a national platform for research and knowledge exchange within the field of radiotherapy. Since the establishment of the National Research Centre in 2018, relevant stakeholders from radiotherapy departments and universities have been engaged in organising research and network activities. A wide range of professional groups participate, including radiobiologists, physicists, clinicians, nurses, computer scientists, and others, with clear integration of the disease-specific DMCGs.
The National Research Centre has achieved definite results, including new research, the initiation of national clinical studies, and the implementation of treatment advances and technological solutions that benefit a growing number of patients. In addition, the Centre has established unique interdisciplinary and national networking opportunities, especially for early-career researchers and clinicians.
As a national and interdisciplinary network, DCCC Radiotherapy aims to ensure that Danish research in radiotherapy continues to maintain its strong position to the benefit of patients.
The network’s activities are centred around working groups, which at the beginning of 2025 are organised into 14 main themes.
The network will also focus specifically on:
- promoting and supporting activities related to patient involvement, including the use of patient-reported outcomes (PROs), shared decision-making, and the engagement of patients in research design
- increasing patient participation in clinical studies
- enhancing the involvement of early-career researchers in the network
- strengthening relationships with clinics and clinical management.
Participating institutions
All cancer departments in Denmark that provide radiotherapy, the Centre for Nuclear Technologies at DTU Health Tech, and the Danish Centre for Particle Therapy, as well as all Danish universities, are involved in the centre. There is also close collaboration with the Danish multidisciplinary cancer groups on clinical protocols.
Daily management
Cai Grau, Professor, Aarhus University Hospital
Stine Korreman, Professor, Aarhus University Hospital
Jesper Grau Eriksen, Professor, Aarhus University Hospital
Simone Bertelsen, Communications Officer, Aarhus University Hospital
Steering Commitee
Ivan Vogelius, Chief Physicist, Professor, Rigshospitalet
Claus Behrens, Medical Physicist, Herlev Hospital
Faisal Mahmood, Professor, Odense University Hospital
Jimmi Søndergaard, Consultant, Aalborg University Hospital
Morten Høyer, Professor, Aarhus University Hospital
Jens Overgaard, Professor, Aarhus University Hospital
Claus Andersen, Senior Reseacher, DTU Health Tech
Martin Berg, Chief Physicist, Vejle Hospial
Organising Committee for Annual Meeting
Anne Bisgaard, Postdoc, Odense University Hospital
Camilla Panduro Nielsen, PhD student, Odense University Hospital
Mette Felter, Consultant, Herlev Hospital
Sidsel Højklint Poulsen, PhD student, Rigshospitalet
Ellen Lund Schaldemose, Oncologist, Vejle Hospital
Michael Laursen, PhD student, Herlev Hospital
Frederik Voigt Carstensen, PhD student, Rigshospitalet
Anders W. Mølby Nielsen, PhD student, Aarhus University Hospital TBC: NN, Aalborg University Hospital
Events
The network’s activities include annual meetings, workshops, and group sessions.
Information about upcoming events will be published here, in the calendar, and on https://www.straaleterapi.dk/.
DCCC Radiotherapy: Annual meeting 2025, 24-25 November 2025
Symposium & workshop on endpoints and pragmatic trail design in palliative radiotherapy, 23 May 2025