PhD defence K.T. (Khrystany) Isebia

Liquid Biopsy based Markers in Prostate Cancer

K.T. Isebia will defend her PhD dissertation on Thursday, 30 November 2023, entitled: ’Liquid Biopsy based Markers in Prostate Cancer‘.

Promotor
Prof.dr. R. de Wit
Promotor
Prof.dr.ir. J.W.M. Martens
Co-promotor
Dr. M.P.J.K. Lolkema
Co-promotor
Dr. A.P. Hamberg
Date
Thursday 30 Nov 2023, 15:30 - 17:00
Type
PhD defence
Space
Senate Hall
Building
Erasmus Building
Location
Campus Woudestein
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Below is a brief summary about the dissertation:

Despite increasing survival and major advances in treatment options, we clearly observe heterogeneity in the response to the current treatment options in metastatic prostate cancer patients. Upfront identification of those patients that will respond poorly to a given treatment could help in designing novel treatment strategies in metastatic prostate cancer. Biomarkers are therefore needed to improve the treatment effect in a more tailored fashion, selecting those patients that need more intensified treatment as well as to obtain the right balance between quality of life and treatment outcome. In this thesis our aim was to look further into liquid biopsy based markers and whether they could fulfill our need for better prognosticating patients, designing novel treatment strategies but also to select patients that would not benefit from intensification of the treatment but rather would benefit of de-escalation of treatment.

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The public defence will begin exactly at 15.30 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers may be able to watch on the screen outside. There is no possibility of entrance during the first part of the ceremony. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, we recommend that you do not take children under the age of 6 to the first part of the ceremony.

A live stream link has been provided to the candidate.

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