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Jan Willem Coebergh is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their primary field of study is Medicine, with extensive research spanning related subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Neurology, Economics and Econometrics, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's research focuses on topics including Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research, Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment, Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer, Family Support in Illness, Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare, and the Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism.

Recent publications by Jan Willem Coebergh emphasize cancer epidemiology and treatment outcomes in pediatric and young adolescent populations. Selected papers include:

  • Significant improvement in survival of advanced stage childhood and young adolescent cancer in the Netherlands since the 1990s (2021) in European Journal of Cancer
  • Progress against childhood and adolescent acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the Netherlands, 1990-2015 (2020) in Leukemia
  • Increasing incidence of cancer and stage migration towards advanced disease in children and young adolescents in the Netherlands, 1990-2017 (2020) in European Journal of Cancer
  • Temporal lobe perceptual predictions for speech are instantiated in motor cortex and reconciled by inferior frontal cortex (2023) in Cell Reports
  • Improved survival for adolescents and young adults with Hodgkin lymphoma and continued high survival for children in the Netherlands: a population-based study during 1990-2015 (2020) in British Journal of Haematology

Jan Willem Coebergh frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Ardine Reedijk
  • Leontien C.M. Kremer
  • Rob Pieters
  • Henrike E. Karim-Kos
  • Olaf Ortmann

Their work appears predominantly in journals such as:

  • European Journal of Cancer
  • Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology
  • Leukemia
  • Cell Reports
  • British Journal of Haematology

Best Publications

  • Cancer incidence and mortality patterns in Europe: Estimates for 40 countries in 2012

    J. Ferlay;Eva Steliarova-Foucher;Joannie Lortet-Tieulent;Sonia Rosso

  • Survival for eight major cancers and all cancers combined for European adults diagnosed in 1995–99: results of the EUROCARE-4 study

    Franco Berrino;Roberta De Angelis;Milena Sant;Stefano Rosso

  • Recent trends of cancer in Europe: a combined approach of incidence, survival and mortality for 17 cancer sites since the 1990s.

    Henrike E. Karim-Kos;Esther de Vries;Isabelle Soerjomataram;Valery Lemmens

  • Geographical patterns and time trends of cancer incidence and survival among children and adolescents in Europe since the 1970s (the ACCIS project): an epidemiological study

    Eva Steliarova-Foucher;Charles Stiller;Peter Kaatsch;Franco Berrino

  • Quality of life among long-term breast cancer survivors: A systematic review

    Floortje Mols;Ad J.J.M. Vingerhoets;Jan Willem Coebergh;Lonneke V. van de Poll-Franse

  • An overview of prognostic factors for long-term survivors of breast cancer

    Isabelle Soerjomataram;Marieke W. J. Louwman;Jacques G. Ribot;Jan A. Roukema

  • Recent trends in incidence of five common cancers in 26 European countries since 1988: Analysis of the European Cancer Observatory.

    Melina Arnold;Henrike E. Karim-Kos;Jan Willem Coebergh;Graham Byrnes

  • Survival of European children and young adults with cancer diagnosed 1995-2002.

    Gemma Gatta;Giulia Zigon;Riccardo Capocaccia;Jan Willem Coebergh

  • EURECCA colorectal: Multidisciplinary management: European consensus conference colon & rectum

    Cornelis J.H. Van De Velde;Petra G. Boelens;Josep M. Borras;Jan Willem Coebergh

  • Changing epidemiology of malignant cutaneous melanoma in Europe 1953-1997: rising trends in incidence and mortality but recent stabilizations in western Europe and decreases in Scandinavia.

    Esther De Vries;Esther De Vries;Freddie I. Bray;Jan Willem W. Coebergh;Donald M. Parkin

  • C-Reactive Protein Levels, Variation in the C-Reactive Protein Gene, and Cancer Risk: The Rotterdam Study

    Claire Siemes;Loes E. Visser;Jan-Willem W. Coebergh;Ted A.W. Splinter

  • Prognostic impact of increasing age and co-morbidity in cancer patients: A population-based approach

    Maryska L.G. Janssen-Heijnen;Saskia Houterman;Valery E.P.P. Lemmens;Marieke W.J. Louwman

  • The changing epidemiology of lung cancer in Europe

    Maryska L.G. Janssen-Heijnen;Jan-Willem W. Coebergh

  • Prevalence of co-morbidity in lung cancer patients and its relationship with treatment: A population-based study

    Maryska L.G Janssen-Heijnen;Rob M Schipper;Peter P.A Razenberg;Mariad A Crommelin

  • Stage at diagnosis is a key explanation of differences in breast cancer survival across Europe

    Milena Sant;Claudia Allemani;Riccardo Capocaccia;Timo Hakulinen

  • Predictors and survival of synchronous peritoneal carcinomatosis of colorectal origin: A population-based study

    Valery E. Lemmens;Yvonne L. Klaver;Vic J. Verwaal;Harm J. Rutten

  • The Patient Reported Outcomes Following Initial treatment and Long term Evaluation of Survivorship registry: Scope, rationale and design of an infrastructure for the study of physical and psychosocial outcomes in cancer survivorship cohorts

    Lonneke V. van de Poll-Franse;Nicole Horevoorts;Mies van Eenbergen;Johan Denollet

  • Understanding variations in survival for colorectal cancer in Europe: a EUROCARE high resolution study

    G Gatta;R Capocaccia;M Sant;C M J Bell

  • Incident cancer burden attributable to excess body mass index in 30 European countries

    Andrew G. Renehan;Isabelle Soerjomataram;Margaret Tyson;Matthias Egger;Matthias Egger

  • Cutaneous malignant melanoma in Europe.

    Elisabeth de Vries;Jan Willem Coebergh

Frequent Co-Authors

Otto Visser
Otto Visser VU University Medical Center
Isabelle Soerjomataram
Isabelle Soerjomataram International Agency For Research On Cancer
Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets
Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets Tilburg University
Eero Pukkala
Eero Pukkala Tampere University
Philip Poortmans
Philip Poortmans University of Antwerp
Charles A. Stiller
Charles A. Stiller Public Health England
Lambertus A. Kiemeney
Lambertus A. Kiemeney Radboud University
Freddie Bray
Freddie Bray International Agency For Research On Cancer
Franco Berrino
Franco Berrino Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
Alexander M.M. Eggermont
Alexander M.M. Eggermont Institut Gustave Roussy

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