Face it; a visual fore-glimpse in AR for facial skin cancer patients' surgery?

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the Netherlands, often caused by having too much exposure to UV radiation from the sun. An effect of this is that the part of the body that is exposed the most to the sun is also the body part where skin cancer is seen more often; the head. When the skin cancer gets removed surgically, the defect...

Optimal control of combined chemo-radiation therapy treatments for improving cancer care

Combined chemo-radiation treatments are often used to enhance tumor cell kill, with respect to their separate treatments. Currently, chemo-radiation therapy treatments are prescribed as a separately optimized radiotherapy treatment with the addition of a generic chemotherapy regimen. The dosing of the combined therapies is mostly based on...

Zorg zonder Zorgen: Het ontwerpen van een stress reducerende zorgomgeving voor mensen met een chronische ziekte en hun mantelzorgers

This study was aimed at developing a design guide for stress reducing healthcare facilities for people with a chronic disease and their caregivers. This study was conducted with literature research, interviews and analyzing reference projects. The results of the literature research show the impact of stress on the different users, the importance...

Shared Decision Making; Designing for Cancer Care

What role patients should assume in medical decision making is an issue that has stimulated much debate. A wide variety of opinions exist, ranging from the view that patients should assume at least some responsibility for their own treatment, to the position that it is unwise to encourage such participation because patients do not have the...