UMC Utrecht Cancer Center
The Dutch university cancer centre that invented the MR-linac and sits at the heart of the Utrecht organoid and Oncode ecosystem.
UMC Utrecht's radiotherapy department under Jan Lagendijk and Bas Raaymakers conceived and built the first integrated MRI-guided linear accelerator, commercialised by Elekta as Unity and used to treat the first patients in Utrecht in 2017. The Cancer Center works with the neighbouring Hubrecht Institute, where Hans Clevers's group grew the first adult stem cell-derived organoids, and with the Princess Máxima Center for paediatric oncology on the same campus; Utrecht is also the seat of the Dutch Oncode Institute. Clinical strengths include image-guided and adaptive radiotherapy, head and neck and gastrointestinal oncology, haematology and a phase 1 unit, and the centre holds OECI accreditation. Patients access MR-guided radiotherapy trials, organoid-guided drug testing studies and molecular tumour boards.
- MR-linac and adaptive radiotherapy
- Organoid research (with Hubrecht Institute)
- Head and neck oncology
- Haematology
- Oncode Institute
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