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Broadcast date: 30 June 2026
Survival cancer further increases, biggest profit at stage III
Source: IKNL
RTL News: 30 January 2026
Important step towards treating pancreatic cancer, 'but not for patients of today'
Source: RTL News
OneToday: 7 August 2025
How doctors Casper van Eijck Jr. and Sr. fight together against pancreatic cancer: 'My example'
Source: One Today
AD: 21 November 2024
Research into a virus that cleans up cancer cells in full swing
Source: General
Panorama: 03/04/2024 - 10/04/2024
"Getting around with patients is a real art."
Surgeon Casper van Eijck fights pancreatic cancer
Source: Panorama (number 14)
European Journal of Cancer: 9 January 2023
A multigene circulating biomarker to predict the lick of FOLFIRINOX response after a single cycle in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
(Source: European Journal of Cancer)
Frontiers in Immunology: January 4, 2023
Spatial genomics reveals a high number and specific location of B cells in the pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma microenvironment of long-term survivors
(Source:Frontiers in Immunology)
Volkskrant: 5 November 2022
Beating cancer with viruses
Viruses can cause serious illness, as the coronavirus pandemic demonstrated, but carefully selected viruses may also help treat disease. Virotherapy is advancing rapidly, and researchers at Erasmus MC and Leiden University Medical Center are investigating whether viruses isolated from primate faeces can be used to fight cancer.
(Source: Volkskrant)
NPO Start: 9 November 2022
Casper van Eijck and Clemens Dirven on a possible breakthrough in cancer treatment
Using viruses found in primate faeces to fight cancer may sound extraordinary. Yet surgeon Casper van Eijck and neurosurgeon Clemens Dirven are developing a treatment based on animal viruses, and one hospice patient made a remarkable recovery and became cancer-free. On Op1, Van Eijck and Dirven discuss this potential breakthrough in cancer treatment.
(Source:NPO Start)
NPO Radio 1: 19 November 2020
5 questions on the new treatment for pancreatic cancer
The first promising research results for a new treatment of this aggressive cancer were published on World Pancreatic Cancer Day. Casper van Eijck is known as Feyenoord's club doctor, but above all he is a professor of surgery and the driving force behind this pancreatic cancer research. On Stax & Toine, he answers five questions about the new treatment. The findings are encouraging, although much work remains.(Source:NPO Radio 1)
Omrop Fryslan: 19 November 2020
Elly's fight against pancreatic cancer with the help of doctor Van Eijck
On 19 November, World Pancreatic Cancer Day, Professor Casper van Eijck of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam shared encouraging results from a new treatment for this devastating disease. Elly Breeuwsma from Leeuwarden has been living with pancreatic cancer for three years. She is being treated by Van Eijck and hopes to take part in the next phase of his research.(Source:Omrop Fryslân)
NOS: 19 November 2020
'Many Promising Results' in New Treatment pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer specialist Casper van Eijck and his team have developed a new treatment for this devastating disease. After cell therapy, nine out of ten participants remained tumour-free and in good health after an average of 18 months. Without the treatment, the cancer would usually return within that period. At the time of the report, the study had not yet been published.(Source: NOS)
JAN Magazine: 7 May 2020
Cloé had metastatic pancreatic cancer. "The diagnosis felt like a death sentence.
When Cloé Kersten (46) gets the diagnosis of metastatic pancreatic cancer - a form of cancer that is almost always fatal - life seems to slip out of her hands. Until it turns out she has a variant that is treatable. As a thank you to all the people who burn lightly for her and for her treating doctor, Casper van Eijck, she decides to create a wish candle brand.(Source: JAN Magazine)
Financial Focus: 24 February 2020
Giving money for a good cause
Many people in the Netherlands donate to charity, but serving on a charity board requires a different kind of commitment. Who are the people who devote their time to helping others? Financial Focus interviews people closely involved with charitable causes. This edition features Casper van Eijck, professor of surgery and a leading figure at Stichting Overleven met Alvleesklierkanker.(Source: Financial Focus)
RTV Rijnmond: 7 February 2020
Words and Acts
Oncological surgeon Casper van Eijck joins presenter Sander de Kramer on the talk show Words and Deeds. He gives patients his mobile number and regards that as entirely normal. "People understand the boundaries. They call only when it is genuinely necessary."Acting quickly can make an important difference in pancreatic cancer, the deadliest common cancer in the Netherlands. Van Eijck conducts pancreatic cancer research at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam.
Van Eijck, who is also Feyenoord’s club doctor, has had to say goodbye to many patients. He remembers an ice-cream seller from Afrikaanderplein who always brought him pistachio ice creams because he knew they were his favourite. "When someone like that eventually dies alone from pancreatic cancer, it stays with you. You take it home and it makes you think."
(Source: RTV Rijnmond)
Quest: May 2019
Telling patients difficult news
At the time of this interview, only three to five per cent of Casper van Eijck’s patients survived pancreatic cancer. How does a doctor tell someone that their life may be short?Van Eijck explains that medical students are first asked who dreads breaking bad news; around ninety per cent raise a hand. There is no perfect way to hold such a conversation, but clinicians can create the right conditions: switch off the telephone, avoid interruptions and give the patient their full attention. Van Eijck had these conversations four or five times a week. Patients were referred by a GP or another specialist, often underwent further tests and a biopsy, and were asked to bring someone with them when the results were discussed.
(Source: Quest)
NPO radio 1, 14 November 2018
Voicemakers: Casper van Eijck on the treatment of pancreatic cancer
VPRO Tegenlicht: 7 October 2018
Eye-wateringly expensive medicines
Pharmaceutical companies have considerable control over the prices of new medicines, while production costs remain confidential. VPRO Tegenlicht follows five professionals, including Professor Casper van Eijck, who are testing alternative models to keep medicines accessible and affordable.Patented medicines continue to become more expensive and profit margins repeatedly reach new records. This can place patent rights in conflict with the right to health. The programme examines experts developing new approaches to patents and practical ways of safeguarding affordable access to medicines.
(Source: VPRO)
General Dagblad, 20 March 2018
Casper van Eijck and his fight against the monster
Feyenoord hosts ADO Den Haag in a benefit match at De Kuip, with the proceeds going to Support Casper. Feyenoord club doctor Casper van Eijck explains why the fight against pancreatic cancer matters."Around three thousand people in the Netherlands are diagnosed each year and ten die every day. We have made very little progress against the disease. Surgery has improved, but it is technically demanding: after removing tissue, we must reconstruct connections involving the stomach, bile ducts and pancreas. Even after such a major procedure, the disease frequently returns. In a world capable of so much, our inability to solve this is painful. I want to be able to do more for these patients."
(Source:AD)
The Walk, 23 Dec 2017
Famous people like Steve Jobs and Sonia Gandhi found him
Thousands of patients have experienced Casper van Eijck’s deeply personal care. In De Wandeling, the Erasmus MC pancreatic surgeon discusses his mission to eliminate the disease and the emotional burden of losing so many patients."During an assisted-dying procedure, I have sometimes been the only person crying. The family felt relieved that everything had gone peacefully, while I realised that I had lost another patient."
Relatives of former patients established the foundation to support Van Eijck’s research into radically new pancreatic cancer treatments.
(Source: KRO)
Elsevier Right, June 30, 2017
You can also say: Guys, let's do this.
In his spare time, Casper van Eijck sits on the Feyenoord bench as club doctor. At Erasmus MC, the professor operates on people with pancreatic cancer, one of the most aggressive and treatment-resistant forms of the disease. He refuses to accept the poor outlook and believes laboratory research may hold the answer.(Source: Elsevier)
Volkskrant Magazine, 19 March 2016
We must appreciate much more that we are still here.
He treated Steve Jobs and Sonia Gandhi and spends weekends on the Feyenoord bench. Professor and oncological surgeon Casper van Eijck moves comfortably between very different worlds.Steve Jobs’s private aircraft landed at Rotterdam Airport twice. The Apple co-founder had a rare pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour and developed metastases after surgery in the United States. He contacted Van Eijck’s team at Erasmus MC, which had developed a new treatment for this particular tumour type.
Van Eijck recalls that Jobs responded well and that the abnormalities in his liver became considerably smaller.
(Source: Volkskrant)