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List of works by Harald J. Hoekstra

18F-FLT PET for visualization of laryngeal cancer: comparison with 18F-FDG PET.

scientific article published in February 2004

18F-fluorodeoxythymidine PET for evaluating the response to hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion for locally advanced soft-tissue sarcomas.

scientific article published in March 2007

3'-18F-fluoro-3'-deoxy-L-thymidine: a new tracer for staging metastatic melanoma?

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A longitudinal comparison of arm morbidity in stage I-II breast cancer patients treated with sentinel lymph node biopsy, sentinel lymph node biopsy followed by completion lymph node dissection, or axillary lymph node dissection.

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A longitudinal study of shoulder and arm morbidity in breast cancer survivors 7 years after sentinel lymph node biopsy or axillary lymph node dissection

scientific article published on April 16, 2013

A prospective study of cognitive function in men with non-seminomatous germ cell tumors

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A sarcoid-like reaction in a patient with hemangiopericytoma--mediastinal lymphadenopathy resulting in confusion about therapy

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

ASO Author Reflections: Stage-Adjusted Reduced Follow-Up of Melanoma Patients is Justified and Cost Effective, Until Biomarkers to Predict Prognosis Have Been Identified

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

ASO Author Reflections: The MelFo-Study, UK: Effects of a Reduced Frequency, Stage-Adjusted Follow-Up Schedule for Cutaneous Melanoma IB-IIC Patients After 3 Years

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Acute chemotherapy-induced cardiovascular changes in patients with testicular cancer

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Adherence to Guidelines for Adult (Non-GIST) Soft Tissue Sarcoma in the Netherlands: A Plea for Dedicated Sarcoma Centers.

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Adipocytes in venipunctures cause falsely elevated S-100B serum values.

scientific article published in August 2016

Adjuvant chemotherapy with doxorubicin, ifosfamide, and lenograstim for resected soft-tissue sarcoma (EORTC 62931): a multicentre randomised controlled trial.

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Adjuvant lymph-node field radiotherapy versus observation only in patients with melanoma at high risk of further lymph-node field relapse after lymphadenectomy (ANZMTG 01.02/TROG 02.01): 6-year follow-up of a phase 3, randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 20 July 2015

Adjuvant radiotherapy versus observation alone for patients at risk of lymph-node field relapse after therapeutic lymphadenectomy for melanoma: a randomised trial.

scientific article published on 9 May 2012

Adolescents' Emotional Reactions to Parental Cancer: Effect on Emotional and Behavioral Problems

scientific article published on October 7, 2010

Amputations for extremity soft tissue sarcoma in an era of limb salvage treatment: Local control and survival.

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Assessment of Volumetric versus Manual Measurement in Disseminated Testicular Cancer; No Difference in Assessment between Non-Radiologists and Genitourinary Radiologist

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Association of PAI-1 gene polymorphism with survival and chemotherapy-related vascular toxicity in testicular cancer

scientific article published on 24 August 2010

Can the ACS-NSQIP surgical risk calculator predict post-operative complications in patients undergoing flap reconstruction following soft tissue sarcoma resection?

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Chemotherapy decreases epiphyseal strength and increases bone fracture risk

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

Clinical and genetic aspects of testicular germ cell tumours

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Clinicopathologic assessment of postradiation sarcomas: KIT as a potential treatment target.

scientific article published on August 2003

Clinicopathologic prognostic factors in myxoid liposarcoma: a retrospective study of 49 patients with long-term follow-up

scientific article published on 22 October 2006

Cognitive impairment in men with testicular cancer prior to adjuvant therapy

scientific article published on August 24, 2010

Completion Dissection or Observation for Sentinel-Node Metastasis in Melanoma.

scientific article published on June 2017

Completion lymphadenectomy for a positive sentinel node biopsy in melanoma patients is not associated with a survival benefit

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Cost-effectiveness of adding FDG-PET or CT to the diagnostic work-up of patients with stage III melanoma

scientific article published in April 2012

Current management of surgical oncologic emergencies

scientific article published on May 2015

Cytogenetics of a soft tissue malignant myoepithelioma

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Deep lymph node metastases in the groin significantly affects prognosis, particularly in sentinel node-positive melanoma patients

scientific article published on 10 July 2014

Delay in Diagnosis of Testicular Cancer; A Need for Awareness Programs

scientific article published on 25 November 2015

Detection and grading of soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities with (18)F-3'-fluoro-3'-deoxy-L-thymidine.

scientific article published in March 2004

Detection of first relapse in cutaneous melanoma patients: implications for the formulation of evidence-based follow-up guidelines

scientific article published on 15 March 2007

Diagnostic accuracy of FISH and RT-PCR in 50 routinely processed synovial sarcomas.

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Does sentinel lymph node biopsy in cutaneous head and neck melanoma alter disease outcome?

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

Double venipuncture is not required for adequate S-100B determination in melanoma patients

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

Emotional and behavioral problems in children of parents recently diagnosed with cancer: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Emotional and behavioural functioning of children of a parent diagnosed with cancer: a cross-informant perspective

scientific article published in September 2005

Evaluation of a Clinically Applicable Post-Surgical Classification System for Primary Retroperitoneal Soft-Tissue Sarcoma

scientific article published on 12 April 2004

Evolving management of colorectal cancer

scientific article published on July 2008

Factors Associated with Short-Term Mortality After Surgical Oncologic Emergencies

scientific article published on 9 November 2015

Factors Predictive of the Status of Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Melanoma Patients from a Large Multicenter Database

scientific article published on June 7, 2011

Factors influencing the use of sentinel lymph node biopsy in the Netherlands.

scientific article published on 12 May 2014

Family‐oriented multilevel study on the psychological functioning of adolescent children having a mother with cancer

scientific article published on May 25, 2010

Fighting Global Disparities in Cancer Care: A Surgical Oncology View

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Flap choice does not affect complication rates or functional outcomes following extremity soft tissue sarcoma reconstruction

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Flap reconstruction does not increase complication rates following surgical resection of extremity soft tissue sarcoma.

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Follow-up in patients with localised primary cutaneous melanoma

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Follow-up of melanoma patients: the need for evidence-based protocols

scientific article published on 03 February 2009

Four different treatment strategies in aggressive fibromatosis: A systematic review

scientific article published on 06 March 2018

Genetic variation in the bleomycin hydrolase gene and bleomycin-induced pulmonary toxicity in germ cell cancer patients

scientific article published in June 2005

Histopathological tumor response following neoadjuvant hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion in extremity soft tissue sarcomas: Evaluation of the EORTC-STBSG response score

scientific article published on 16 May 2018

Hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion, preoperative radiotherapy, and surgery (PRS) a new limb saving treatment strategy for locally advanced sarcomas

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Identification of predictors for wound complications following preoperative or postoperative radiotherapy in extremity soft tissue sarcoma

scientific article published on 09 February 2018

Immediate dynamic lymphoscintigraphy delivers no additional value to lymphoscintigraphy 3 hr after tracer injection in sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer patients

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Impact of Time Between Diagnosis and SLNB on Outcomes in Cutaneous Melanoma

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Impact of sentinel node status and other risk factors on the clinical outcome of head and neck melanoma patients

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Inclusion of malignant fibrous histiocytoma in the tumour spectrum associated with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer

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Increase of sentinel lymph node melanoma staging in The Netherlands; still room and need for further improvement

scientific article published on 30 March 2020

Increased incidence of brain metastases in cutaneous head and neck melanoma

scientific article published in April 2005

Is 18F-3'-fluoro-3'-deoxy-L-thymidine useful for the staging and restaging of non-small cell lung cancer?

scientific article published in October 2004

Isolated limb perfusion and external beam radiotherapy for soft tissue sarcomas of the extremity: long-term effects on normal tissue according to the LENT-SOMA scoring system

scientific article published on 11 March 2008

Isolated limb perfusion for in-transit melanoma metastases: melphalan or TNF-melphalan perfusion?

scientific article published on 09 January 2014

Isolated limb perfusion of soft tissue sarcomas: A comprehensive review of literature

scientific article published on 08 December 2012

Isolated limb perfusion with tumor necrosis factor alpha and melphalan for locally advanced soft tissue sarcoma: the value of adjuvant radiotherapy

scientific article published on 16 February 2006

Isolated limb perfusion with tumor necrosis factor alpha and melphalan for locally advanced soft tissue sarcoma: three time periods at risk for amputation

scientific article published on 26 January 2007

Laparoscopic Resection of Residual Retroperitoneal Tumor Mass in Advanced Nonseminomatous Testicular Germ Cell Tumors; a Feasible and Safe Oncological Procedure

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Laparoscopic resection of a residual retroperitoneal tumor mass of nonseminomatous testicular germ cell tumors

scientific article published on 23 September 2011

Level of fluorodeoxyglucose uptake predicts risk for recurrence in melanoma patients presenting with lymph node metastases.

scientific article published on 23 May 2006

Limb perfusion in soft tissue sarcomas: twenty years of experience

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Long-term locoregional vascular morbidity after isolated limb perfusion and external-beam radiotherapy for soft tissue sarcoma of the extremity

scientific article published on 25 April 2007

Lymphatic Drainage Patterns from Melanomas on the Shoulder or Upper Trunk to Cervical Lymph Nodes and Implications for the Extent of Neck Dissection

scientific article published on May 11, 2012

Male sexuality after cancer treatment--needs for information and support: testicular cancer compared to malignant lymphoma

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Marital and sexual satisfaction in testicular cancer survivors and their spouses

scientific article published on 20 January 2005

Melanoma

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Metastasectomy for distant metastatic melanoma: analysis of data from the first Multicenter Selective Lymphadenectomy Trial (MSLT-I)

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Metastasis in soft tissue sarcomas: prognostic criteria and treatment perspectives

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Morbidity After Inguinal Lymph Node Dissections: It Is Time for a Change

scientific article published on 12 August 2016

Multidrug resistance proteins in primary and metastatic soft-tissue sarcomas: down-regulation of P-glycoprotein during metastatic progression.

scientific article published in January 2004

Multidrug resistance proteins in rhabdomyosarcomas: comparison between children and adults

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

No increase of melanoma after kidney transplantation in the northern part of The Netherlands

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Nodular Histologic Subtype and Ulceration are Tumor Factors Associated with High Risk of Recurrence in Sentinel Node-Negative Melanoma Patients.

scientific article published on 19 September 2016

Non-germ cell malignancy in residual or recurrent mass after chemotherapy for nonseminomatous testicular germ cell tumor

scientific article published in March 2003

Objective and subjective predictors of cancer-related stress symptoms in testicular cancer survivors

scientific article published on 15 February 2006

Parent-child communication patterns during the first year after a parent's cancer diagnosis: the effect on parents' functioning

scientific article published in September 2009

Parental cancer: characteristics of parents as predictors for child functioning

scientific article published in March 2006

Perception of burden experienced during diagnostic tests by melanoma patients with lymph node metastases

scientific article published in February 2009

Placental site trophoblastic tumor in a late recurrence of a nonseminomatous germ cell tumor of the testis.

scientific article published on June 2004

Plexiform malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour of infancy and childhood of the index finger: Surgical treatment

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Posterior retroperitoneoscopic resection of recurrent nonseminomatous tumor mass: a case report of the surgical procedure

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Pregnancy and early-stage melanoma

scientific article published on 01 May 2003

Preoperative Ultrasound Assessment of Regional Lymph Nodes in Melanoma Patients Does not Provide Reliable Nodal Staging: Results from a Large Multicenter Trial

scientific article published on 07 June 2019

Prevalence, changes in and correlates of fatigue in the first year after diagnosis of testicular cancer.

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Prognosis and determinants of outcome following locoregional or distant recurrence in patients with cutaneous melanoma

scientific article published on 15 January 2008

Prognosis in patients with sentinel node-positive melanoma is accurately defined by the combined Rotterdam tumor load and Dewar topography criteria

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Prospective comparison of [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and computed tomography in patients with melanoma with palpable lymph node metastases: diagnostic accuracy and impact on treatment.

scientific article published on 31 August 2009

Quality of life after axillary or groin sentinel lymph node biopsy, with or without completion lymph node dissection, in patients with cutaneous melanoma

scientific article published on 29 July 2009

Quality of life after hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion for locally advanced extremity soft tissue sarcoma

scientific article published on 12 April 2006

Quality of life after sentinel lymph node biopsy or axillary lymph node dissection in stage I/II breast cancer patients: a prospective longitudinal study

scientific article published on 3 July 2008

Quality of life and stress response symptoms in long-term and recent spouses of testicular cancer survivors

scientific article published in July 2004

Quality of life of parents with children living at home: when one parent has cancer

scientific article published on 3 July 2007

Radiation-associated angiosarcoma after breast cancer: high recurrence rate and poor survival despite surgical treatment with R0 resection

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Radiation-induced sarcoma: a challenge for the surgeon

scientific article published on 03 March 2005

Regional Node Basin Recurrence in Melanoma Patients: More Common After Node Dissection for Macroscopic Rather than Clinically Occult Nodal Disease

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Risk factors for postoperative wound complications after extremity soft tissue sarcoma resection: A systematic review and meta-analyses

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

S-100B as an extra selection tool for FDG PET/CT scanning in follow-up of AJCC stage III melanoma patients

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Screening for germline DND1 mutations in testicular cancer patients

scientific article published on September 2010

Selectivity of 18F-FLT and 18F-FDG for differentiating tumor from inflammation in a rodent model.

scientific article published in April 2004

Self-esteem, social support, and mental health in survivors of testicular cancer: a comparison based on relationship status

scientific article published in July 2006

Semen quality in men with disseminated testicular cancer: relation with human chorionic gonadotropin beta-subunit and pituitary gonadal hormones

scientific article published on 28 April 2008

Sentinel node biopsy for early-stage melanoma: accuracy and morbidity in MSLT-I, an international multicenter trial

scientific article published in September 2005

Sentinel-node biopsy or nodal observation in melanoma

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Sexual function, depressive symptoms and marital status in nonseminoma testicular cancer patients: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Short-term morbidity of the upper limb after sentinel lymph node biopsy or axillary lymph node dissection for Stage I or II breast carcinoma

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

Stress response symptoms in adolescent and young adult children of parents diagnosed with cancer

scientific article published in January 2005

Stress response symptoms in adolescents during the first year after a parent's cancer diagnosis

scientific article published on 06 November 2009

Structured analyses of interventions to prevent delirium

scientific article published on 16 September 2010

Survival of participating and nonparticipating limb amputees in prospective study: consequences for research.

scientific article published in January 2010

Syndromic aspects of testicular carcinoma.

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TNF dose reduction and shortening of duration of isolated limb perfusion for locally advanced soft tissue sarcoma of the extremities is safe and effective in terms of long-term patient outcome

scientific article published on 17 February 2011

Temperament as a predictor of internalising and externalising problems in adolescent children of parents diagnosed with cancer

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Testicular cancer: a longitudinal pilot study on stress response symptoms and quality of life in couples before and after chemotherapy

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Testicular carcinoma and HLA Class II genes

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The Impact of Smoking on Sentinel Node Metastasis of Primary Cutaneous Melanoma.

scientific article published on 21 February 2017

The MELFO Study: A Multicenter, Prospective, Randomized Clinical Trial on the Effects of a Reduced Stage-Adjusted Follow-Up Schedule on Cutaneous Melanoma IB-IIC Patients-Results After 3 Years

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

The MELFO-Study: Prospective, Randomized, Clinical Trial for the Evaluation of a Stage-adjusted Reduced Follow-up Schedule in Cutaneous Melanoma Patients-Results after 1 Year

scientific article published on 18 May 2016

The MelFo Study UK: Effects of a Reduced-Frequency, Stage-Adjusted Follow-Up Schedule for Cutaneous Melanoma 1B to 2C Patients After 3-Years

scientific article published on 04 July 2020

The classic prognostic factors tumor stage, tumor size, and tumor grade are the strongest predictors of outcome in synovial sarcoma: no role for SSX fusion type or ezrin expression.

scientific article published in May 2009

The effects of testicular cancer treatment on health-related quality of life

scientific article published on 5 December 2009

The impact of parental cancer on children and the family: a review of the literature

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The metabolic syndrome and disturbances in hormone levels in long-term survivors of disseminated testicular cancer.

scientific article published on 28 February 2005

The relation between histological, tumor-biological and clinical parameters in deep and superficial leiomyosarcoma and leiomyoma.

scientific article published on January 2002

Treatment-specific risks of second malignancies and cardiovascular disease in 5-year survivors of testicular cancer

scientific article published in October 2007

VEGF-SPECT with ¹¹¹In-bevacizumab in stage III/IV melanoma patients.

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Value of continuous leakage monitoring with radioactive iodine-131-labeled human serum albumin during hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion with tumor necrosis factor-alpha and melphalan

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Variation in bleomycin hydrolase gene is associated with reduced survival after chemotherapy for testicular germ cell cancer

scientific article published in April 2008

Volume of interest delineation techniques for 18F-FDG PET-CT scans during neoadjuvant extremity soft tissue sarcoma treatment in adults: a feasibility study.

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Vulvar melanoma: is there a role for sentinel lymph node biopsy?

scientific article published in January 2002

Worse Survival in Elderly Patients with Extremity Soft-Tissue Sarcoma.

scientific article published on 08 March 2016

[18F]FLT-PET and [18F]FDG-PET in the evaluation of radiotherapy for laryngeal cancer.

scientific article published on 18 August 2009

[18F]FLT-PET in oncology: current status and opportunities

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[Improved compliance with the 'Melanoma' treatment guideline]

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

[Isolated infusion effective in melanoma and sarcoma. Good alternative for regional isolated cytostatic perfusion]

scientific article published on 01 March 2009

[Sentinel lymph node biopsy necessary in melanoma patients]

scientific article published on 01 January 2014