TEDxEindhovenSalon 2019
Saving lives together | Susanne Baars
Susanne Baars introduces the SocialGenomics MOONSHOT initiative to create access to lifesaving information for everyone and her personal motivation. She is sharing details about her visionary venture, which include a global network to build the world’s largest community to connect rare disease and cancer patients, loved ones and passionate scientists to find cures and accelerate medical breakthroughs.
Stress, emotion and cancer | David Khayat
Professor David Khayat, former president of the french national cancer institut, describes the relationship between sadness, uncontrolled stress and the risk to developp a malignant disease. He tells us what could be the mechanisms at the basis of that relationship.
Involving the patient as expert on quality of life | Art Vreugdenhil
Art Vreugdenhil is an MD working at the Maxima Oncological Centre in Veldhoven. In his work he stresses the importance of the personal preferences in cancer treatments. What he proposes in his talk is an increased involvement of the patient in the choices that are made during treatment.
Doctors are not immune for the diseases they treat | Warner Prevoo
Warner Prevoo is in daily life an interventional radiologist treating cancer patients. And then out of the blue he becomes a cancer patient himself. He struggles how to be a real patient and at the same time stay the doctor he was before. He tells about his new insights of the relationship between doctors and patients. They should team up. Doctors should not be empathetic in an artificial manner. Patients should ask their doctor how they will life.