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Marc Besselink
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Professor of pancreatic and hepatobiliary (HPB) surgery, Amsterdam UMC - Dutch Pancreatic Cancer Group, Dutch Pancreatitis Study Group, E-AHPBA president ‘23-‘25
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Together, we’re advancing pancreatic cancer care across Europe. 🌍

Since the #PancreaticCancer Position Paper was published in May 2024, we’ve been turning its recommendations into action – improving prevention, early detection & care.

👉 Learn more: https://bit.ly/3JzYNiC

#EUNewsline
October 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Wonderful 2nd BCIPCC meeting #Lisbon 🇵🇹
⏩️ bcipcc.org

Today included #ISGPS and #Robot #Pancreatic #Surgery sessions:

#ISGPS is working on improved and simplified definitions for DGE and PPH
#DIPLOMA3 trial Robot vs Lap Pancreatectomy is ongoing!
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Presentation of the “2025 Multi-Societal European Guideline on #PancreaticCancer” recommendations

✅Today #ESSO44 🙌 #Gothenburg 🇸🇪
✅ Initiated by @eahpba.bsky.social #ESSO
✅ Coordinated by Laura Leeuwenburgh & Magdalena Holze @erangelova.bsky.social

⏩️ esso44.gcon.me/programme
October 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
What happens when you merge two high volume centers for #pancreas #surgery?
@amsterdamumc.bsky.social ❌❌❌
500 vs 500 Whipples (pre vs post)

✅ 30-day mortality: 2.0 to 0.4%, P=0.02
✅ failure-to-rescue: 4.9 to 1.1%, P=0.04
✅ PPH grade B/C: 8.0 to 4.6%, P=0.027

⏩️ journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg...
September 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
#HoraEst 🎓today Nine De Graaf @amsterdamumc.bsky.social : “Minimally invasive versus open #pancreatic #surgery

✅Collaboration @e_mips @DPCG_official
✅81 authors, 12 countries
✅8 chapters, incl #DIPLOMA2 trial in @nejm.org @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social

⏩️ hdl.handle.net/11245.1/1641...
September 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Building one regional #cancer #network with 13 hospitals for 3.5 million inhabitants (20% of cancer care in 🇳🇱): the #OncoNoVo+ collaborative approach incl regional cancer care pathways. “how we did it” with survey.

⏩️ bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
August 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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"[I]t will be critical to maintain a human in the loop even as we seek to incorporate the strengths of #AI-based review in our editorial process."

Read this Editorial from the editors and staff of JAMA and the JAMA Network journals. #PRC10

ja.ma/41qVq3q
August 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Found that @Google #Scholar ranks medical #journals by h-index and decided to check #surgery journals, interesting! @jdimick1 Annals of Surgery 🏆 @jbdimick.bsky.social
@ihpba.bsky.social

⏩️ scholar.google.com/citations?vi...
August 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The #LEOPARD2 trial changed our nationwide practice dramatically: near ❌stop laparoscopic #Whipple, rapid ✅increase #Robot Whipple. See our letter in @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social
🧐 #DIPLOMA2 trial Robot vs open Whipple coming up. @eahpba.bsky.social

⏩️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
August 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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August 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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📌 The SPIRIT 2025 statement updates the guidelines for randomized trial protocols to enhance their completeness, transparency, and consistency, benefiting stakeholders involved in clinical research.

ja.ma/4fzMVZS
August 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Organ transplantation saves lives 🫁

Yet, according to WHO, only 10% of the global need for transplants is being met.

In our latest issue, a Comment introduces the ESOT transplant–Lancet Commission on Transplantation.

➡️ tinyurl.com/ccysxrux
July 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Warm welcome at the 56th Japan Pancreas
Society, Tokyo🇯🇵. Excellent session incl profs Shrikhande🇮🇳, Jang🇰🇷, Nagakawa and Nakamura🇯🇵 on evidence and current nationwide #Robotic #Whipple use:
🇰🇷 33% (incl lap)
🇳🇱 25%
🇮🇳 ~5%
🇯🇵 ~5%

Now 4 RCTs available! @ihpba.bsky.social @eahpba.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Comparison of catheter wound infusion, intrathecal morphine, and intravenous analgesia for postoperative pain management in open liver resection: randomized clinical trial
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjso...
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@bjsurgery.bsky.social
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July 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Distribution of the NCCN stages of #PancreaticCancer ?

16,412 pts (2017-2022) 🇳🇱
👉23% primary resectable
👉 8% borderline resectable
👉 11% locally advanced
👉 58% metastatic

⏩️ academic.oup.com/bjs/article/11…
July 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Reposted by Marc Besselink
What is "Conversion surgery" 🐛➡️🦋 for upfront unresectable upper GI and HPB cancers ⁉️

💉 Triggered by improvements in non surgical therapies 🧰 Many techniques included
🏆 Able to improve survival!

💡 All u need to know ⬇ comprehensive review in @bjsopen.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/bjsopen/arti...
July 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The European Pancreatic Club 2025 meeting in #Dusseldorf 🇩🇪 was a big success. EPC is the only #European wide multidisciplinary meeting regarding only #Pancreas #Pancreatitis #PancreaticCancer

⏩️Excellent #RCTs discussed: #CASSANDRA, #DIPLOMA1, #DIPLOMA2, #PANDRA2, #ESPAC6, #ESPAC7, #SIMBA
July 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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So honored to be part of this!!!

👇🎓💪
#Horaest 🎓 @AnoukEmmen today 🙌
“Improving outcomes in minimally invasive #pancreatoduodenectomy” incl the #DIPLOMA2 RCT. @abuhilal.bsky.social

⏩️ hdl.handle.net/11245.1/5ba777…

Thank you @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social for being here with excellent discussion!
June 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Reposted by Marc Besselink
Time flies and @bjsurgery.bsky.social / @bjsopen.bsky.social editorial assistants rotate. Huge gratitude goes to our out-going editorial assistants Yung Lee, @hansl16.bsky.social and Laura Maggino - I’ve learned a great deal from you! 🙏 Terms end, but you will be part of BJS Family forever!
June 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#Horaest 🎓 @AnoukEmmen today 🙌
“Improving outcomes in minimally invasive #pancreatoduodenectomy” incl the #DIPLOMA2 RCT. @abuhilal.bsky.social

⏩️ hdl.handle.net/11245.1/5ba777…

Thank you @gio-marchegiani.bsky.social for being here with excellent discussion!
June 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The Most Impressive Bicycle Infrastructure in the Netherlands

Chris Bruntlett compiled the following list of The Netherlands’ most impressive bicycle infrastructure. Forty unique constructions, in alphabetical order.

dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/be...

@dutchcycling.nl @modacitylife.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Once known as the “Kingdom of Bicycles”, China largely abandoned cycling in the 1990s, handing their streets over to the car in the name of prosperity. But in recent years, policymakers have done a stunning reversal, reallocating vast amounts of space in the name of liveability.

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June 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Do you offer #video #consultation when explaining and consenting to major abdominal (eg #pancreas #liver #esophageal surgery?

Today #VIDEOGO RCT incl 112 pts @thelancet.com DH

📎 Patient, surgeon satisfaction for video non-inferior
📎 Efficacy favored video
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S25…
June 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Pleasure to attend and present at #EAHPBA2025 Dublin incl the ongoing #DIPLOMA-2x2 trial and @tropancregistry.bsky.social Wonderful meeting, talks and colleagues! @eahpba.bsky.social @patriciopolanco.bsky.social @carobruna.bsky.social @marcbesselink.bsky.social
June 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Impact of feeding strategy after pancreatoduodenectomy on delayed gastric emptying and hospital stay: nationwide study
➡️ doi.org/10.1093/bjso...

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June 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM