On Thursday 8 July 2021, I.B. de Angst will defend her PhD dissertation, entitled: ‘Shared decision-making: Achieving Well-balanced Treatment Decisions for Patients with Prostate Disease’.
- Date
- Thursday 8 Jul 2021, 10:30 - 12:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
Urology is one of the specialties in which shared decision-making (SDM) has come to play a more important role over the course of recent years. In particular within the context of treatment selection for patients with localized prostate cancer, because this treatment decision is highly sensitive to preferences. Patients need to choose between surgery, external beam radiotherapy, brachytherapy or active surveillance, which all have equivalent survival outcomes, but have different risks and benefits. This thesis aimed to provide insight into the effectiveness of patient decision aids (PDAs) for various prostate diseases and to optimize the shared decision-making (SDM) process. This was done by introducing novel supportive decision-making tools and to evaluate these in various prostate diseases. This thesis is divided into four parts of which three are about SDM in benign prostate enlargement (Part I), localized prostate cancer (Part II) and advanced prostate cancer (Part III). In Part IV, suggestions for the optimalisation of the SDM process are discussed.
Due to corona, the PhD defences do not take place publicly in the usual way in the Senate Hall or in the Professor Andries Querido Room. The candidates will defend their dissertation either in a small group or online.
