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Otto Visser

Researcher at VU University Medical Center

Publications -  264
Citations -  18801

Otto Visser is an academic researcher from VU University Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 240 publications receiving 14262 citations. Previous affiliations of Otto Visser include Utrecht University & University Medical Center Groningen.

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Variation between hospitals in surgical margins after first breast-conserving surgery in the Netherlands

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the variation in surgical margin status between hospitals in the Netherlands and present funnel plots to compare the performance of different hospitals in terms of the percentage of positive margins.
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Improvement of Care in Patients With Colorectal Cancer: Influence of the Introduction of Standardized Structured Reporting for Pathology.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that use of SSR improved patient care in those with CRC by providing more complete reports of higher quality, which had significant effects on the delivery of adjuvant therapy and patient outcomes.
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Taste alterations and cancer treatment.

TL;DR: Taste is a combination of different sensations: smell, texture, temperature and saliva play an important role in determining the overall flavor of food and the mechanism for taste and smell abnormalities in cancer patients treated with systemic therapies remains unclear.

cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality After t reatment for Ductal carcinoma in Situ of the Breast

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that 5-year survivors of DCIS had a similar risk of dying due to any cause (standardized mortality ratio [SMR] = 1.04; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.97 to 1.11) but a lower risk for dying of CVD (SMR = ǫ 0.67 to 0.89).