Victoria Depoorter
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Extracellular vesicles in disease
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- MicroRNA in disease regulation
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
- Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
- Cell Adhesion Molecules Research
- AI in cancer detection
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Occupational and environmental lung diseases
KU Leuven
2020-2023
Cancer Research Institute Ghent
2017
Ghent University
2017
Breast cancer cells closely interact with different cell types of the surrounding adipose tissue to favor invasive growth and metastasis. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanometer-sized secreted by that shuttle proteins nucleic acids establish cell-cell communication. To study role EVs released cancer-associated in breast progression metastasis a standardized EV isolation protocol obtains pure maintains their functional characteristics is required. We implemented differential...
This study aims to describe end-of-life (EOL) care in older patients with cancer and investigate the association between geriatric assessment (GA) results specialized palliative (SPC) use. Older a new diagnosis (2009-2015) originally included previous multicentric were selected if they died before end of follow-up (2019). At time diagnosis, underwent screening Geriatric 8 (G8) followed by GA case G8 score ≤14/17. These data linked registry healthcare reimbursement for follow-up. EOL was...
12041 Background: Long-term outcomes after cancer diagnosis in older persons are largely unexplored because of limited follow-up clinical studies. By linking data with population-based data, studying long-term large cohorts becomes feasible. The current study aims to explore the care trajectory patients and assess their association baseline geriatric screening assessment (GS/GA) results. Methods: A cohort a new was set up by clinical, registry administrative health based on unique patient...