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Jo Hermans

Researcher at Leiden University

Publications -  351
Citations -  26375

Jo Hermans is an academic researcher from Leiden University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Survival rate & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 89, co-authored 344 publications receiving 25700 citations. Previous affiliations of Jo Hermans include Leiden University Medical Center & University of Amsterdam.

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Treatment of single brain metastasis: Radiotherapy alone or combined with neurosurgery

TL;DR: It is coclude that patients with single brain metastasis and stable extracranial tumor activity should be treated with surgical excision and radiotherapy, and that radiotherapy alone appears to be sufficient.
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Risk assessment for patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia before allogeneic blood or marrow transplantation

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple system based on five main factors gives adequate risk assessment for counselling of patients and taking decisions, which is highly predictive for leukaemia-free survival, survival and transplant-related mortality.
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The choice of treatment of single brain metastasis should be based on extracranial tumor-activity and age

TL;DR: For patients with single brain metastasis and with controlled or absent extracranial tumor activity, radiotherapy alone seems to be sufficient and should be considered for patients in a good performance status with surgically unaccessible single metastasis or even with multiple brain metastases.
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Micrometastases and survival in stage II colorectal cancer.

TL;DR: Molecular detection of micrometastases is a prognostic tool in stage II colorectal cancer and can be used to identify patients with stage II disease who are at high risk for recurrence.