Grant received in 2020
DCCC has funded 200,000 DKKK to the preparation of this national and multidisciplinary investigator-initiated study.
Patients with colon cancer are offered a CT-scan which stage cancer, meaning it helps describe where a cancer is located, if or where it has spread, and whether it is affecting other parts of the body. CT-scanning thus make it possible for doctors to best determine the appropriate treatment option. However, CT-scanning is not the most optimal method. Patients often go through several scans and there is risk of suboptimal treatment due to missing cancer staging. MR-scanning may fill this void. The aim of the preliminary study work is to investigate if whole body MR-scanning can improve cancer staging, hence decrease additional scans per patient and faster referral to optimal treatment.
Study preparations are completed in collaboration between the radiological-, surgical- and oncological departments at Vejle Hospital, Herlev Hospital and Aalborg Hospital.
Project stakeholders
Vejle Hospital
- Søren Rafael Rafaelsen, Professor, Department of Radiology
- Hans Rahr, Head Consultant, Organ and Plastic Surgery
- Lars Henrik Jensen, Consultant, Department of Oncology
Herlev Hospital
- Jakob Hagen Vasehus-Schou, teamledende overlæge, gi-teamet, Onkologisk Afdeling.
- Radiologisk afdeling, konkret navn meddeles snarest.
Aalborg University Hospital
- Rasa Mikalone, Specialty Registrar, Department of Radiology
- Jens Brøndum Frøkjær, Professor, Department of Radiology
- Martynas Mikalonis, Specialty Registrar, Department of Surgery (section for upper gastrointestinal and hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery)
- Laurids Ø. Poulsen, Specialty Registrar, Department of Oncology
- Laurids Østergaard Poulsen, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, Aalborg University. Primary contact, Mail: laop@rn.dk
News
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