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Hans
Langendijk
Radiation Oncologist
University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)
"Professor Hans Langendijk studied medicine at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He was trained as a radiotherapist-oncologist at the Radiotherapeutic Institute Limburg in Heerlen and Maasricht. In 2000 he obtained his doctorate at Maastricht University with his thesis “Quality of Life in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer”. From 1997 to 2004, he worked as a radiotherapist-oncologist at the Radiotherapy Department of the VU Medisch Centrum in Amsterdam. During that period he further specialized in the radiotherapy of tumors in the head and neck region.

In October 2004 he works as a professor/department head at the Radiotherapy department of the University Medical Center Groningen. He is particularly interested in head and neck oncology, prevention of radiation-induced complications and the development of innovative methods for the development and clinical validation of new radiotherapy techniques, such as proton therapy."