Received grant in 2018
DCCC has funded 197,450 DKKK to the project.
A Danish experiment published in the acknowledged journal 'Lancet Oncology' in 2015 demonstrated promising results with treatment of rectal cancer by radiation and chemotherapy. Since then another Danish national study has demonstrated that the treatment also can be practiced in other departments with good results. The experiment we wish to initiate will determine the optimal dose of radiation. Our claim is that a higher radiation dose given by modern technique will be well tolerated and cure more patients. This question can only be answered by undertaking a lottery experiment.
Status as of August 2022: The protocol has been initiated and patients have been included in two out of five planned centres. A boarding meeting has been held on 13 and 14 June 2022 with a view to following up on the inclusion and getting the last centers activated.
A national network has been established with the highest international competences in radiation treatment of rectal cancer. The network takes care of both the quality assurance close to the patient and research-based improvements of the treatment.
Multidisciplinary organisation
Danish Colorectal Cancer Group
Project stakeholders
Patient representative
- Hans Foged, Tarmkræftforeningen
The North Denmark Region
- Jesper Dan Nielsen, Surgical Consultant, Aalborg University Hospital
- Laurids Østergaard Poulsen, MD, Department of Oncology, Aalborg University Hospital
- Mette Karen Yilmaz, MD, Department of Oncology, Aalborg University Hospital
- Rasa Mikalone, MD, Department of Radiology, Aalborg University Hospital
- Dennis Arp, Hospital Physicist, Aalborg University Hospital
The Region of Southern Denmark
- Lars Henrik Jensen, Professor, Consultant, Department of Oncology, Vejle Hospital. Primary contact, mail: lars.henrik.jensen@rsyd.dk
- Søren Rafael Rafaelsen, Professor in Abdominal Radiology, Vejle Sygehus and University of Southern Denmark
- Anders Jakobsen, Professor in Oncology, Vejle Sygehus and University of Southern Denmark
- John Pløen, Consultant, Department of Oncology, Vejle Sygehus
- Henrik Dahl Nissen, Hospital Physicist, Vejle Sygehus
- Jan Lindebjerg, Consultant, Associate Professor, Vejle Sygehus and University of Southern Denmark
- Jens Christian Riis Jørgensen, Consultant, Department of Surgery, Vejle Sygehus
- Eksternal (Assistant Professor, University of Southern Denmark)
Ane Appelt, Physicist, Ph.D., Institute of Cancer and Pathology, University of Leeds & Leeds Cancer Centre, UK
The Capital Region of Denmark
- Tommie Mynster, Consultant, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Bispebjerg Hospital and University of Copenhagen
- Signe Normann Risum, Consultant, Ph.D., Department of Oncology, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen
- Camilla Qvortrup, Consultant, Ph.D., Department of Oncology, Rigshospitalet and University of Copenhagen