Important information
As a doctor, professor, haematologist and researcher at Ghent University Hospital and affiliated with the University of Ghent, I am very well placed to impart the right information. So be sure to listen to the podcast episodes recorded with me. I talk about the disease, the treatments and the impact on patient and family. Furthermore, I am an active member of the Board of Directors of this non-profit organisation as a medical advisor and was a co-founder of SuperNils. I have therefore helped review and approve the information on this page. Hopefully, you will extract what is important to you.
This brochure “Living with lymphoma” has been made available since 20 October 2018 by Janssen who worked closely with LVV for this purpose. We joined hands to help patients, their families and loved ones better understand lymphoma. Click on the picture and so on to the latest brochure available.
Living with lymphoma
LVV asbl
Janssen Pharmaceuticals
Your doctor, healthcare team or patient organisation has given you this brochure explaining different forms of immunotherapy for treatments of certain types of cancer. This brochure is not intended to replace consultations with your doctor. The information may be useful when discussing treatment options for your cancer with your healthcare team.
Immunotherapy
Talk to your doctor about it!
Your doctor talked to you about stem cell removal with possible transplantation afterwards. Below, we go over the different steps of this procedure with you and also point out the possible side effects that may occur.
Autologous stem cell collection and transplantation
Talk to your doctor about it!
This brochure contains information on immunotherapy for cancer. It supplements the information given to you by your treating oncologist (physician-specialist) or oncology nurse. Do you still have questions after reading this brochure? Please contact your treating oncologist (physician specialist) or oncology nurse. More information on immunotherapy, such as animations and videos, can be found on this website www.immunooncology.be.
Immunotherapy 2
website: www.immunooncology.be
You are reading this brochure because you, or someone you care for, has been diagnosed with peripheral neuropathy or is an at-risk patient. This brochure is designed to help you understand what peripheral neuropathy is and what its consequences may be. This brochure provides information to help you or your loved ones in the day-to-day management of peripheral neuropathy. It focuses on the practical aspects of living with this condition when you have also been diagnosed with cancer. It is important to talk to your doctor about symptoms of peripheral neuropathy - especially if these symptoms change or do not seem to get better. The earlier you talk to your doctor, the better.
Living with peripheral neuropathy
Takeda
Brochure with facts, testimonials and treatments from and for people living with Waldenström disease.
Living with Waldenström
CMP Flanders
Janssen Pharmaceuticals
2022
Get the latest overview of 2020 haematological cancers here.
Overview of haematological cancers
Brussels Cancer Registry Foundation 2023
The brochure is intended to supplement the information you have received from your treating oncologist (physician specialist) or oncology nurse.
If you still have questions after reading this brochure, please contact your treating oncologist (physician specialist) or oncology nurse.
More information on immunotherapy, including videos, articles, tips,.... can be found on our website www.immunooncology.be
Practical information on immunotherapy
Bristol Myers Squibb
Did you know that Kankerinfo answers more than 10 000 questions every year? Professionals such as GPs, psychologists, social workers and nurses specialising in oncology listen and provide answers to questions about cancer.
general medical information on cancer prevention and detection, general information on treatments and examinations, communication with care staff, asking the right questions to your doctor, emotional support for patients and their loved ones - possibility of free telephone counselling (threshold lowering) with a psychologist specialising in oncology up to 6 sessions. Complementary to psychologists in the hospital.
Don't hesitate to refer to Cancerinfo. Publications such as business cards, posters, etc. can be ordered there for FREE.
Cancer info line
Foundation Against Cancer
Foundation Against Cancer regularly puts brochures in a new and more modern guise. The brochures are also becoming more comprehensive and contain even more valuable information. Click on the image on the right and take a look at the new brochure on “breast cancer”.
New brochure in the spotlight: breast cancer
Foundation Against Cancer
You will set out together and walk paths that will not always be flat. Here you will find a roadmap to guide you through the different stages you may experience as a carer. An overview of everything you are entitled to and what you can - or sometimes must - apply for. All kinds of tips and information can be found by theme.
Roadmap - Palliative Care Flanders, Palliative Care Antwerp and Foundation Against Cancer.
Innovative research that increases cancer patients' chances of survival or improves their quality of life: that is what Kom op tegen Kanker supports. Especially when the government or pharmaceutical industry does not or insufficiently fund it.
The innovative projects are of high quality and improve the treatment and/or quality of life of cancer patients. They are both clinical and translational research provided that patients are directly involved and central to the research.
Biomedical research
Visit the Kom op tegen Kanker website (click on the logo on the left).
Every year, about 400 children - under 15 years old - get cancer out of a total of almost 68,000 diagnoses in Belgium. Children's cancers are therefore rare and require adapted treatment and care.
So that all children with cancer receive appropriate treatment and care, Kom op tegen Kanker funds all paediatric oncology centres in Flanders - UZ Gent, UZ Leuven, UZ Brussel and UZ Antwerpen - so that they can remain active in international clinical studies. In addition, the organisation supports many care projects that improve the quality of life of children with cancer and those around them and ease this difficult period in their lives.
Research and projects in paediatric oncology
Stand up to Cancer
Click on the print on the left and visit the website around this theme.
This website gives you an overview of the free brochures that can be ordered from Foundation Against Cancer.
Free publications
Foundation Against Cancer
Quickly click on the print on the left and see the wide overview.
Clear website of Fight Against Cancer, for young people facing cancer. With information on various cancers, stories from fellow sufferers, information on possible help, support and activities. Worth a visit!
Stand up to Cancer
My Guide was designed and elaborated by Foundation Against Cancer to give the best possible guidance and practical support to people with cancer from diagnosis. Are you at the start of treatment? Order My Guide through our free Cancer Info service on 0800 15 802.
For more info, click on the picture and check out the website.
My Guide - Free brochure from Foundation Against Cancer
Order them via the website. Click on the picture on the left.
Katie is a serious game about cancer aimed at young people, but anyone can play the game. Click to install the game. Katie is also the name of the main character in the game. She is a young, sprightly woman diagnosed with breast cancer. Together with her, we learn about cancer and the different treatments: surgery, chemo(therapy), radiation, and immunotherapy.
Katie is an idea of haematologist Prof Dr Tessa Kerre (UGent - UZ Gent) and Bruno Bollaert.
With Katie, Prof Dr Tessa Kerre will help break the taboo around cancer, show how basic cancer treatments are, and who knows, maybe sow the seeds in young people to become cancer researchers later.
Serious Game Katie
Professor Dr Tessa Kerre
Bruno Bollaert
Godspear Games (via Google Play)
Here you can watch several webinars organised by the Lymphoma Cancer Association Flanders and Wildgroei vzw.
Webinar on Waldenström disease, intimacy and sexuality in cancer, aggressive lymphomas, clinical trials, etc.
Webinars
Lymphoma cancer association Flanders vzw (LVV)
Wildgroei non-profit organisation
Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML)
Clear video explaining this disease.
Bristol Myers Squibb
CAR-T: the treatment
Car-T cell therapy - the treatment. A video that explains everything to you in detail.
Bristol Myers Squibb
CAR-T: the follow-up
Clear film that teaches you all about follow-up after Car_T cell therapy.
Bristol Myers Squibb
Click on the picture opposite for clear videos explaining these three different forms of treatment: chemotherapy, immunotherapy and oncology treatment in pill form.
Chemotherapy, immunotherapy and oncology treatment in pill form
Leuven University Hospital
Film on the research on “Automated detection of measurable residual disease in blood cancers”.
Research in collaboration with Ghent University, CRIG, UZ Gent and VIB.