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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
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
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
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
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
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
#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
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
Surgeons Cup 2025🇳🇱

🏑All 7 universities (incl teaching centers) playing against eachother in soccer, field hockey, rowing, volleyball, tug of war etc.

🏐 Organised by Amsterdam this year.

🚣 Longstanding tradition

⚽️ Guess who won soccer ☺️
Photo: soccer team Amsterdam region 2025

chirurgencup.nl
June 15, 2025 at 6:29 PM
@eahpba.bsky.social 6 #presidents (past-present-elect) on stage.
🙌Thank you for an exciting 2-year presidency. It has been an honour!

Happy and proud with Isabella Frigerio🇮🇹 as our new President-elect. The right person for the job!

Congratulations Eduard Jonas🇿🇦 on the ‘25-‘27 presidency.
June 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Local chapters presidents breakfast #EAHPBA25
with the @eahpba.bsky.social
Germany 🇩🇪
Zwitserland 🇨🇭
The Netherlands 🇳🇱
Czechia 🇨🇿
Austria 🇦🇹
Italy 🇮🇹
West-East Balkan 🇷🇸 🇸🇮 🇭🇷 🇧🇬 ao
Spain 🇪🇸

With the new president Eduard Jonas and past presidents Ajith Siriwardena Marc Besselink
June 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
#HoraEst @ammaraj.bsky.social 🇺🇸 #PhD ceremony today in A’dam 🇳🇱
⏩️Amazing work!! #Thesis hdl.handle.net/11245.1/d2bd0a…#PhDhD team: Chris Wolfgang, Jin He, Lois Daamen

@amsterdamumc.bsky.soci
al @pancpals.bsky.social @dpcgofficial.bsky.socia#PancreaticCancerer
May 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Professor John Cameron, living legend 👑, one of the 1st Trialists in #pancreatic #surgery: 88yr but alive and kickin’ #AmericanSurgical San Diego🇺🇸

A true leader by example, inspiration for all of us!! @hopkinsmedicine.bsky.social @eahpba.bsky.social @ihpba.bsky.social
@dpcgofficial.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Immensely honored to receive a Honorary Fellowship with #ASA #American #Surgical #Association #AnnalsOfSurgery in #SanDiego
April 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
7th #E-MIPS course MIS #pancreas #surgery #Amsterdam Skills Centre 🤖 24 particip, 15 countries incl 🇧🇷🇯🇵🇮🇳 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇳🇱 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇵🇱 🇬🇷 🇨🇴
🔑 3 Robot PJ dry lab stations
🔑 3 Robot simulator stations
🔑 2 Robot Whipple wet lab stations
🔑 4 Lap distal wet lab stations
🔑 4 Lap PJ suturing stations
@eahpba.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#PANCPALS you rock! 🎸
March 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Congrats to #AnoukEmmen and @tfstoop.bsky.social for excellent presentations in the #PresidentialSession #AHPBA2025 AHPBA Miami 🇺🇸: #DIPLOMA2 RCT🇪🇺 robot/lap 🤖 vs open Whipple and #PREOPANC4🇳🇱 implementation of surgery for locally advanced #PancreaticCancer for @dpcgofficial.bsky.social and #EMIPS
March 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Can #Video Grading of Bile Duct Anastomoses During Robotic 🤖 #Pancreatoduodenectomy Predicts Bile Leak (BL)?

✅ Videos from 259 pts robotic HJ: 6.9% B/C BL
✅ OSATS score <21 assoc with BL
✅ The rate of BL was 5.1% for OSATS>21 vs 12.5% for OSATS ≤21

▶️ journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg...
February 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
How do costs of #robot 🤖 vs open #pancreatoduodenectomy compare?

588 pts A’dam🇳🇱 (214 RPD, 374 OPD)

⛔️Costs €4,804 ⬆️ RPD
✅As outcomes RPD improved in the 2nd half: cost per RPD €11,058 less
🔑 Costs in the 2nd half RPD vs OPD comparable (€21,778 vs. €21,013)

▶️ journals.lww.com/annalsofsurg...
February 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Can prophylactic #Radiotherapy #SBRT in non-PDAC #pancreatoduodenectomy prevent fistula POPF?

🔑 “it works but doesn’t help”

▶️#FIBROPANC published today @bjsurgery.bsky.social @dpcgofficial.bsky.social @eahpba.bsky.social @ihpba.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/bjs/article/...
February 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Surgery for symptomatic wide duct #chronic #pancreatitis : 🔪or 🤖 ?
Today: @bjsopen.bsky.social

“This systematic review suggested that MIS LPJ can be performed safely in … chronic pancreatitis. Phase 2 RCTs needed”.
✅PANACOTTA RCT starting soon!

Free online ▶️ academic.oup.com/bjsopen/arti...
January 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM