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dr. M.C. van Maaren (Marissa)

Assistant Professor

About Me

I am a clinical epidemiologist and assistant professor of oncology care at the University of Twente. I also have an external positition at the Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL). I obtained my PhD in 2018 at the University of Twente. My thesis was entitled: “Local management of early breast cancer and clinical risk prediction of survival”. In this thesis I mainly focused on 1) the evaluation of breast-conserving therapy and mastectomy in the daily breast cancer population, in which I worked with several methodologies suitable for observational research, and 2) development and validation of prediction models for use in daily clinical practice.

My current research activities include research on long-term outcomes following a variety of treatments for breast cancer. I am involved in the registration of pathologically confirmed recurrences in the Netherlands Cancer Registry (NCR), which is hosted by IKNL. I am part of the NABOR project team working on a by ZonMW subsidised research on personalised breast cancer follow-up. Here I am responsible for the development/update of the INFLUENCE 3.0 prediction tool that estimates the risk of locoregional recurrence and second primary breast cancer, for which I use the data from IKNL.

I teach on research methodology and quality of care in several modules within the BMT/BME and GZW/HS bachelor and master programmes. Besides, I am co-developer of a new learning line in the BMT bachelor on methodology and statistics.

Furthermore, I am a board member of the Netherlands Epidemiology Society (VvE) in which I focus on advanced epidemiological methods: how do we make sure epidemiologists within and outside of academia know of these methodologies and how can we spread our knowledge. In addition, I am member and coordinator of the national breast cancer working groups (NABON-BOOG) scientific evaluation committee of NCR data requests.

 

 

Expertise

Medicine & Life Sciences
# Breast
# Breast Neoplasms
# Mastectomy
# Neoplasm Metastasis
# Netherlands
# Population
# Recurrence
# Survival

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Recent
Verreck, E. E. F., van Steenhoven, J. E. C., Kuijer, A. , van Maaren, M. C., Simons, J. M. , Siesling, S., & van Dalen, T. (2023). ASO Visual Abstract: Trends of Axillary Treatment in Sentinel Node-Positive Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing Mastectomy. Annals of surgical oncology, 30(9), 5635-5636. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-023-13621-1
Verreck, E. E. F., van Steenhoven, J. E. C., Kuijer, A. , van Maaren, M. C., Simons, J. M. , Siesling, S., & van Dalen, T. (2023). Trends of axillary treatment in sentinel node-positive breast cancer patients undergoing mastectomy. Annals of surgical oncology, 30(9), 5623-5632. https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-023-13568-3
van Maaren, M. C. , Siesling, S., Hueting, T. A., Völkel, V., van Hezewijk, M., & Strobbe, L. J. A. (2023). The use and misuse of risk prediction tools for clinical decision-making. The Breast, 69, 428-430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2023.01.006
van Steenhoven, J. E. C. , van Maaren, M. C., Verreck, E. E. F., Schipper, R. J., Nieuwenhuijzen, G. A. P., Kuijer, A. , Siesling, S., & van Dalen, T. (2023). Inequalities in the omission of axillary dissection in sentinel lymph node positive patients in the Netherlands: Innovative hospitals are early adopters of a de-escalating approach. International journal of cancer, 152(7), 1378-1387. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.34400
Eijkelboom, A., de Munck, L., de Vries, M., Francken, A. B., Hendriks, M. P., Strobbe, L. J. A. , Witteveen, A. , van Maaren, M. C. , & Siesling, S. (2023). Routine and interval detection of locoregional breast cancer recurrences and risk of subsequent distant metastasis. Breast cancer research and treatment, 197(1), 123–135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-022-06757-3
van Maaren, M. C., & Bijker, N. (2022). Risk assessment: Calculating the benefit of RT for individual patients. In O. Kaidar-Person, I. Meattini, & P. Poortmans (Eds.), Breast Cancer Radiation Therapy: A Practical Guide for Technical Applications (pp. 81-90). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91170-6_12

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Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

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Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

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University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Technohal (building no. 18), room 3304
Hallenweg 5
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Technohal  3304
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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