🔥 Hora est 🎓 Tesa Hendriks “The Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Audit: Improving patient outcomes in #pancreatic #surgery” @amsterdamumc.bsky.social @dpcgofficial.bsky.social 🙌 118 co-authors, 13 countries, 10 publications incl 2x Annals ans 2x @bjsurgery.bsky.social #ISGPS 🔗 dare.uva.nl/id/cff4c22b-32…
Marc Besselink
@marcbesselink.bsky.social
Professor of pancreatic and hepatobiliary (HPB) surgery, Amsterdam UMC - Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group, Dutch Pancreatitis Study Group, E-AHPBA president ‘23-‘25
„In onze eerste studie zagen we dat het voorbehandelen van patiënten zonder uitzaaiingen hun vijfjaarsoverleving verdrievoudigde naar 20 procent. Een enorme verbetering voor deze groep.” @marcbesselink.bsky.social Marcel Hobma @nrcwetenschap.bsky.social #geneeskunde www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
The 2nd PI meeting #PANENCA trial: lots of enthusiasm and excellent participation! 54 /400 #Whipple pts with a pancreatic duct ≤3 mm already included ✅, 28 centers 🇳🇱🇺🇦🇮🇹🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇮🇧🇪🇩🇰🇨🇳 RCT on HOP bundle (hydrocortisone, octreotide and the ligamentum teres patch) to prevent complications after #Whipple
Amazing international team at the #Wirsung2026 Pancreas Conference in @hpdsurgery.bsky.social Padova Great minds - great connections - true friendship 🇮🇹🇳🇱🇯🇵🇰🇷 @marcbesselink.bsky.social
So very proud of this #DIPLOMA2x2 trial team (robot vs open #Whipple 2:1 randomization)! What a group of surgeons, pathologists, and oncologists 🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇪🇧🇪🇩🇪🇺🇸! Now 376/413 pts randomized @e-mips.bsky.social @dpcgofficial.bsky.social @abuhilal.bsky.social @juliamenso.bsky.social
Nice @eurpancreaticclub.bsky.social webinar Chronic #Pancreatitis sharing 4 multicenter trials @dpsg.bsky.social 🇳🇱 ✅ #ESCAPE: 8-yr f-up ⬆️ pain control surgery vs endoscopy ✅ #ESCOPA: European series ✅ #PANACOTTA: NEW #Robot vs open ✅ #RESCUE: NEW. endoscopy vs surgery
A distinguished visit to the Department of #Surgery at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social, VUmc location! Thank you “Sinterklaas” and his helpers 🚢🥕📕 for the wise and slightly confrontational rimes for each #surgeon 🙌.
Together, we’re advancing pancreatic cancer care across Europe. 🌍 Since the #PancreaticCancer Position Paper was published in May 2024, we’ve been turning its recommendations into action – improving prevention, early detection & care. 👉 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3JzYNiC #EUNewsline
Wonderful 2nd BCIPCC meeting #Lisbon 🇵🇹 ⏩️ bcipcc.org Today included #ISGPS and #Robot #Pancreatic #Surgery sessions: ✅ #ISGPS is working on improved and simplified definitions for DGE and PPH ✅ #DIPLOMA3 trial Robot vs Lap Pancreatectomy is ongoing!
Presentation of the “2025 Multi-Societal European Guideline on #PancreaticCancer” recommendations ✅Today #ESSO44 🙌 #Gothenburg 🇸🇪 ✅ Initiated by @eahpba.bsky.social #ESSO ✅ Coordinated by Laura Leeuwenburgh & Magdalena Holze @erangelova.bsky.social ⏩️ esso44.gcon.me/programme
What happens when you merge two high volume centers for #pancreas #surgery? @amsterdamumc.bsky.social ❌❌❌ 500 vs 500 Whipples (pre vs post) ✅ 30-day mortality: 2.0 to 0.4%, P=0.02 ✅ failure-to-rescue: 4.9 to 1.1%, P=0.04 ✅ PPH grade B/C: 8.0 to 4.6%, P=0.027 ⏩️ journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg...
#HoraEst 🎓today Nine De Graaf @amsterdamumc.bsky.social : “Minimally invasive versus open #pancreatic #surgery” ✅Collaboration @e_mips @DPCG_official ✅81 authors, 12 countries ✅8 chapters, incl #DIPLOMA2 trial in @nejm.org @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social ⏩️ hdl.handle.net/11245.1/1641...
Building one regional #cancer #network with 13 hospitals for 3.5 million inhabitants (20% of cancer care in 🇳🇱): the #OncoNoVo+ collaborative approach incl regional cancer care pathways. “how we did it” with survey. ⏩️ bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
"[I]t will be critical to maintain a human in the loop even as we seek to incorporate the strengths of #AI-based review in our editorial process." Read this Editorial from the editors and staff of JAMA and the JAMA Network journals. #PRC10 ja.ma/41qVq3q
Found that @Google #Scholar ranks medical #journals by h-index and decided to check #surgery journals, interesting! @jdimick1 Annals of Surgery 🏆 @jbdimick.bsky.social @ihpba.bsky.social ⏩️ scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
The #LEOPARD2 trial changed our nationwide practice dramatically: near ❌stop laparoscopic #Whipple, rapid ✅increase #Robot Whipple. See our letter in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social 🧐 #DIPLOMA2 trial Robot vs open Whipple coming up. @eahpba.bsky.social ⏩️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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📌 The SPIRIT 2025 statement updates the guidelines for randomized trial protocols to enhance their completeness, transparency, and consistency, benefiting stakeholders involved in clinical research. ja.ma/4fzMVZS
Organ transplantation saves lives 🫁 Yet, according to WHO, only 10% of the global need for transplants is being met. In our latest issue, a Comment introduces the ESOT transplant–Lancet Commission on Transplantation. ➡️ tinyurl.com/ccysxrux
Warm welcome at the 56th Japan Pancreas Society, Tokyo🇯🇵. Excellent session incl profs Shrikhande🇮🇳, Jang🇰🇷, Nagakawa and Nakamura🇯🇵 on evidence and current nationwide #Robotic #Whipple use: 🇰🇷 33% (incl lap) 🇳🇱 25% 🇮🇳 ~5% 🇯🇵 ~5% Now 4 RCTs available! @ihpba.bsky.social @eahpba.bsky.social
Comparison of catheter wound infusion, intrathecal morphine, and intravenous analgesia for postoperative pain management in open liver resection: randomized clinical trial ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjso... @bjsacademy.bsky.social @bjsurgery.bsky.social
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Distribution of the NCCN stages of #PancreaticCancer ? 16,412 pts (2017-2022) 🇳🇱 👉23% primary resectable 👉 8% borderline resectable 👉 11% locally advanced 👉 58% metastatic ⏩️ academic.oup.com/bjs/article/11…
What is "Conversion surgery" 🐛➡️🦋 for upfront unresectable upper GI and HPB cancers ⁉️ 💉 Triggered by improvements in non surgical therapies 🧰 Many techniques included 🏆 Able to improve survival! 💡 All u need to know ⬇ comprehensive review in @bjsopen.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bjsopen/arti...
The European Pancreatic Club 2025 meeting in #Dusseldorf 🇩🇪 was a big success. EPC is the only #European wide multidisciplinary meeting regarding only #Pancreas #Pancreatitis #PancreaticCancer ⏩️Excellent #RCTs discussed: #CASSANDRA, #DIPLOMA1, #DIPLOMA2, #PANDRA2, #ESPAC6, #ESPAC7, #SIMBA
So honored to be part of this!!! 👇🎓💪
#Horaest 🎓 @AnoukEmmen today 🙌 “Improving outcomes in minimally invasive #pancreatoduodenectomy” incl the #DIPLOMA2 RCT. @abuhilal.bsky.social ⏩️ hdl.handle.net/11245.1/5ba777… Thank you @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social for being here with excellent discussion!
Time flies and @bjsurgery.bsky.social / @bjsopen.bsky.social editorial assistants rotate. Huge gratitude goes to our out-going editorial assistants Yung Lee, @hansl16.bsky.social and Laura Maggino - I’ve learned a great deal from you! 🙏 Terms end, but you will be part of BJS Family forever!
#Horaest 🎓 @AnoukEmmen today 🙌 “Improving outcomes in minimally invasive #pancreatoduodenectomy” incl the #DIPLOMA2 RCT. @abuhilal.bsky.social ⏩️ hdl.handle.net/11245.1/5ba777… Thank you @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social for being here with excellent discussion!
The Most Impressive Bicycle Infrastructure in the Netherlands Chris Bruntlett compiled the following list of The Netherlands’ most impressive bicycle infrastructure. Forty unique constructions, in alphabetical order. dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/be... @dutchcycling.nl @modacitylife.com
Once known as the “Kingdom of Bicycles”, China largely abandoned cycling in the 1990s, handing their streets over to the car in the name of prosperity. But in recent years, policymakers have done a stunning reversal, reallocating vast amounts of space in the name of liveability. buff.ly/S7fY4eY
Do you offer #video #consultation when explaining and consenting to major abdominal (eg #pancreas #liver #esophageal surgery? Today #VIDEOGO RCT incl 112 pts @thelancet.com DH 📎 Patient, surgeon satisfaction for video non-inferior 📎 Efficacy favored video authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S25…